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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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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900 Days of Klingon

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…

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800 Days of Klingon

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…

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