Spare Me From The Klingonists!
Nov. 24th, 2009 03:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fiat_knoxI have a folder in my email account just for the Klingon mailing list. Once in a while, if it gets too much, I go in and I just delete the lot, unread. Sometimes I get 40 or 50 or more emails in that inbox in one night, and none of them ever get read.
Ever.
Once in a while I open one of them and take a look to see if I am missing something. Not really. I delete the email and carry on to wipe out the entire record of emails in my folder.
Last night, I made an innocuous comment. Someone piped up and said "Is that canon?"
The reply: "No, it's just Fiat Knox."
I replied that I'd found the actual words in the Klingon Dictionary. Page and line.
And the reply? "It's still not canon, because Marc Okrand hasn't used them in a sentence."
If the Apocalypse comes, I want it to single out these hypocritical, biased bastards first.
For now, I'm going back to deleting their words unread. They really contribute nothing save to stroke their egos. It must be like this with the Tolkien Elvish fans, and pity the poor bastards who come to a convention and try and start up a conversation with them.
You know what people ask me when they come up to me? "Why have you spent all this time studying a language from a kids' show?" I can live with that. I have a good answer to that. It beats "Are you still trying to teach your baby son Klingon?" any day.
Ever.
Once in a while I open one of them and take a look to see if I am missing something. Not really. I delete the email and carry on to wipe out the entire record of emails in my folder.
Last night, I made an innocuous comment. Someone piped up and said "Is that canon?"
The reply: "No, it's just Fiat Knox."
I replied that I'd found the actual words in the Klingon Dictionary. Page and line.
And the reply? "It's still not canon, because Marc Okrand hasn't used them in a sentence."
If the Apocalypse comes, I want it to single out these hypocritical, biased bastards first.
For now, I'm going back to deleting their words unread. They really contribute nothing save to stroke their egos. It must be like this with the Tolkien Elvish fans, and pity the poor bastards who come to a convention and try and start up a conversation with them.
You know what people ask me when they come up to me? "Why have you spent all this time studying a language from a kids' show?" I can live with that. I have a good answer to that. It beats "Are you still trying to teach your baby son Klingon?" any day.
