Four years of Klingon

wejvatlh javmaH vagh vI' cha' vagh'logh boq'egh loS; chen wa'San loSvatlh javmaH wa' = 365.25 times 4 equals 1461. qaStaHvIS tlhIngan Hol vIHaDtaH loS DIS. = I have studied Klingon for four years. To be specific, I have a streak on Duolingo that's four years long. I forced my way through it solely so I could make…

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A Klingon correction

I have a social media presence on Facebook, Bluesky (@acorn.garden), and Mastodon (@wgseligman@pagan.plus). Because my ego knows no bounds, I posted the following on all three: My review of ta' puq mach has just been published on Amazon. I was a bit surprised they accepted it. (For those of you whose Klingon is rusty, ta' puq mach…

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1400 days of Klingon

qaStaHvIS wa'SaD loSvatlh jaj tlhIngan Hol vIHaDtaH = I have been studying Klingon for fourteen hundred days. I don't have anything new to add to my earlier essays on using Duolingo to learn Klingon. Frankly, I've grown weary of the daily practice. I see the same phrases over and over again. I don't feel like I'm learning…

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Vote Forward

I just got back from a letter-writing party at a friend's house. The point was to write letters as part of Vote Forward. You send hand-written letters to folks who haven't voted recently. The goal is to boost voter turnout. Everyone who writes a letter is encouraged to use their own words, as long as the tone…

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1300 Days of Klingon

qaStaHvIS wa'SaD wejvatlh jaj tlhIngan Hol vIHaDtaH. = I have studied Klingon for 1300 days. I don't have much to add what I've said before in my previous Klingon posts. A hobby that I started to be able to speak Orcish in a D&D game has turned into a daily habit. I'm still seeing new phrases occasionally;…

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1200 Days of Klingon

qaStaHvIS wa'SaD cha'vatlh jaj tlhIngan Hol vIHaDtaH = I have studied the Klingon language for 1200 days. In my post 1111 Days of Klingon, I said it might be my last post on Klingon. Obviously, it wasn't. In a "what the heck" mood, I decided to try the first lesson of "Section 4" in the Duolingo course.…

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1111 Days of Klingon

qaStaHvIS wa'SaD wa'vatlh wa'maH wa' jaj tlhIngan Hol vIHaDtaH. = I have studied Klingon for one thousand one hundred and eleven days. Three Klingon-related posts in a row! However, there's more to this particular post than the alliteration of the digit "1": It may be my last post on Klingon. In other words, I've finished the Duolingo…

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1100 Days of Klingon

qaStaHvIS wa'SaD wa'vatlh jaj tlhIngan Hol vIHaDtaH = I have studied Klingon for one thousand one hundred days. The way our calendar works has gives me another milestone on the heels of another. Five days ago I celebrated three years of studying Klingon. Klingon was invented by a linguist who wanted to create an alien language. I…

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1000 Days of Klingon

tlhIngan Hol vIHaDtaH qaStaHvIS wa'SaD jaj = I have studied the Klingon language for one thousand days. I don't have much to add to my earlier essays on my study of Klingon (links at the end of this post). I do have both good news and bad news, depending on whether you feel that studying Klingon is…

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