<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 11:40 AM, SuStel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" target="_blank">sustel@trimboli.name</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="m_-5427164374932651254moz-cite-prefix">On 9/14/2017 11:27 AM, nIqolay Q wrote:<br>
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Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 11:00 AM, mayqel qunenoS <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" target="_blank">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">Are you serious ? Do you really expect this
kind of arguments to be taken seriously ?<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">If you're going to be "in-character"
and treat Klingon culture as if it's a real thing, then you
also have to treat the Klingon language as something we only
know about from the incomplete information told to us by a
single grouchy Klingon.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">It's one thing to wonder in-character
why no one's ever asked Maltz about spoils or why Maltz has
never brought them up, but acting like there is some major
deficiency in the depiction of Klingon culture simply because
Marc Okrand hasn't worked his way through every entry in
Merriam-Webster strikes me as incredibly stupid. </div>
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</div></div><p>You have to learn to speak mayqel-ese. I took his initial post to
mean, not "Klingon culture and language is stupid because they
don't have a word for <i>spoils,</i>" but "Klingons obviously
have to have a word for <i>spoils,</i> don't they?"</p></div></blockquote><div><b>toH! mayqel, nom jIghoH, 'ach QIt jIyaj. </b>I've certainly made similar arguments before about words we don't know yet.<b> veS tev</b> (I suppose it would be <b>noH tev</b> if you're talking about specific spoils from a specific war) strikes me as a particularly good phrase. <br></div></div></div></div>