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.…
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…
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…
tlhIngan Hol vIHaDtaH qaStaHvIS wej DIS. = I have studied Klingon for three years. Since I'm going to write a longer post on my study of Klingon in five days, I'm not going to say much here. vaghleS jIghItlh = In five days I will write.
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…
tlhIngan Hol vIHaDtaH qaStaHvIS Hutvatlh jaj = I have studied the Klingon language for nine hundred days. This is a follow-up to my 800 Days of Klingon and my Two years of Klingon lessons essays. I still have the impression that the older, deleted form of Duolingo's Klingon course was superior. As I predicted, I've hit some…
As a celebration of my streak of 800 days of learning Klingon, I've updated an earlier post I wrote on my two-year anniversary of daily Klingon lessons. The update includes a nice video about the language. I've also corrected a few errors. It may be the sort of thing that no one will notice, but knowing that…
tlhIngan Hol vIHaDtaH qaStaHvIS cha' DIS = I have studied the Klingon language for two years. A revision made 70 days later In random browsing through YouTube, I came across this video a couple of weeks ago: This is the video I refer to in the essay as an extra on a Star Trek DVD. If you're…
Here we go! This time around, I'm giving my cats names in Klingon. This one is jI'IHqu', which means "I am very beautiful." The "'" signifies a glottal stop; that's what you say between the "uh" and "oh" of "uh-oh". The H signifies a hard "ch" sound, like in Bach or chutzpah. However, it's hard for cats…