intersected | 15. - NOT USELESS, YAY

Current Mood: excited

Entry tags:

15. - NOT USELESS, YAY

[In slightly rusty conversational Klingon:]

nuqneH, General Chang! It looks like we've been paired up. I'm looking forward to this!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Chuck immediately settles into Serious Mode. Look at how serious he is being right now. He sits down and looks attentive.]

[He puts the books on the table on the side.] How would you like to begin?

[He shrugs.] The basics? Useful phrases? Like I said, I'm a little out of practice. [Although he could parse Bryce's weird construction of "bulletproof vest" under duress...still, baby steps.]

Hmm. [Chang settles beside him.] First. We do not habitually use 'hello' as a greeting. Not if we know who that person is or we have something to say to them. Passing a Klingon on the street, it is ok. In letters, it is also acceptable. Otherwise, it is used to be… cocky? Overconfident and uncaring. Challenging.

Right...got it. [Chuck writes it down, underlines "overconfident". Because he certainly does not want to seem that way to a Klingon! That's a good way to get a mek'leth through your abdomen.] So what do you say instead?

We do not. At most we tell them we know who they are. Then we tell them why we wish to speak to them.

Oh. That makes sense. [He knew that Klingons didn't go for pleasantries, but even greetings were taboo. Awesome.]

[Not taboo, merely indicative of jackassery.] More efficient.

Right. [Efficient! Efficiency is good. Not for the first time, Chuck thinks Casey would fit in well with Klingons, what with his habit of using a grunt as a greeting.]

Manners, as humans know it, are generally used to imply that the other is delicate, thus, it becomes insulting. [Casey would probably have more in common with these guys (http://www.startrekfreedom.com/wiki/index.php/Brikar), Klingons generally like to party more.]

Oh. [Yeah, that actually makes a lot of sense.] I can see why it would be in Klingon culture. [Dunno, Casey is a pretty awesome DJ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov26gEtDVNc).]

[Chang nods and pulls out a Klingon translation of Merchant of Venice.] Have you seen this?

No, can't say I have...[Man, he hasn't used Klingon script since he and Bryce left notes for each other back at Stanford. He's beginning to worry about this if all it does is remind him of the guy who'd been his best friend and worst enemy.]

[Chang nods non-committally and pulls out another book.] This is the English translation. We will go through it together, hmm?

[Chuck accepts the book.] Okay. Sounds good.

[Want to assume the actual reading?

[Yes please. And then we can finally have a new thread! Sorry I've been so derpy on this one.]

[It's fine, honestly!]

[I still feel bad. :c]

[Chang mostly looks after himself and was moping, so you missed nothing.]

[Good to know. But aww, moping. :c]

[Klingons. What are you going to do?]

[Bring on the bloodwine and gagh and make this into a party?]

[That's probably it!]

[Urge to hold Klingon party rising.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

15. - NOT USELESS, YAY

[spam]

[spam]

[spam]

[spam]

[spam]

[spam]

[spam]

Re: [spam]

[spam]

[spam]

[spam]

[spam]

[spam]

Re: [spam]

Re: [spam]

Re: [spam]

Re: [spam]

Re: [spam]

Re: [spam]

Re: [spam]

Re: [spam]

Re: [spam]

Re: [spam]

Re: [spam]

Re: [spam]

Re: [spam]

Re: [spam]