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Interview with Marc Okrand
StarTrek.com posted an interview with Marc Okrand, the creator of the Klingon language in two parts (the second part is here).
I just got around to reading the interview new, and one thing I particularly enjoyed was that I could hear Marc speaking; having had the privilege to meet him at qepHom wa'maHDIch in Saarbrücken a couple of weeks ago, I ( Read more... ) -
“Stutter words” in Klingon
It’s well known that there are a number of homonyms in Klingon: words which are spelled and pronounced the same but mean different things; for example, jIH could be a pronoun “I, me”, a verb “to monitor”, or a noun “viewing screen, display”. There are also similarities between stand-alone words and affixes, such as vetlh “cockroach” and -vetlh “ ( Read more... ) -
Klingon elements
I knew that hydrogen was bIQSIp “water-gas”, and that made me think of German Wasserstoff “water-stuff”.
Then I saw that nitrogen was voQSIp “choke-gas”, and that made the impression even stronger; the German is Stickstoff “suffocate-stuff”. (Or so I presume. “To suffocate” is a prefixed form, ersticken, at least in modern German.)
So I guessed ( Read more... ) -
latlh mu' chu'
Marc Okrandvo' latlh mu' chu' Hevpu'bogh Quvar'e' 'ang ghaH. Santa Claus rurtaH - jarvam vagh mu' chu' nunobta'. nargh latlh net SIv... {{:)
"The word for monastery is {ghIn}. This is a pretty general term for a religious community (and the term "religious" could be interpreted in various ways as well), so it can be modified. A {ghIn'a'} would be ( Read more... ) -
New Word: "tractor beam"
There's a new canon word, revealed to us by Marc Okrand. Quvar posted it on the mailing list today:
There was a question about whether {tlhaptIH} was a good way to say "tractor beam." Maltz said he'd never heard that before, but he has heard {luHwI' tIH}.
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Two more new words: {ngogh} (block, lump, brick) and {buq} (bag, sack, pouch, pocket)
Quvar (Lieven Litaer) has told us about two new words that Maltz has revealed to us:
Here's another word revealed at the qepHom in Saarbrücken.
Note for the newbies: This is canon, i.e. official, directly from Marc Okrand, the creator of the Klingon Language:
Maltz first said that Klingons don't have pillows and he wondered why anyone would ( Read more... ) -
mu' chu' wIneHqu'bogh
Savanqu'.
cha'Hu' FacebookDaq QIn lab Quvar (tera' pongDaj 'oH Lieven'e'; wa' tlhIngan Hol yejHaD pab po'wI' ghaH). Marc Okrandvo' mu' chu' Hevlaw'. nuQum. potlhqu' mu'vam; qechvam 'oSbogh mu''e' wIneHpu' qaStaHvIS poH nI'.
mu' 'oH mIllogh'e', 'ej DIvI' Hol mu' picture 'oSlaw'.
( QIj Quvar. ) -
Lt. Reed at Geek Media Expo
Along with Garrett Wang,Dominic Keating will be appearing at Nashville's Geek Media Expo on October 22-24. For more details go to http://whatisgmx.net.
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Klingon Shakespeare
On September 25th, the Washington Shakespeare Company is putting on an event entitle By Any Other Name: An Evening of Shakespeare in Klingon, with special guest George Takei ( Read more... ) -
Star Trek status day
If it's all right to do this here, I'm encouraging everyone to regard Sept 8th as Star Trek status day over at Facebook. . .hopefully others will do this, too. . .I'm not on MySpace, or any other deals like this, but I hope that where ever you post regularly, you put up a quote from Star Trek. . .