[1066] in tlhIngan-Hol
Klingon language camp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sat Jun 26 02:13:14 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
From: "M. R. THURMOND" <LIMRT@ttacs1.ttu.edu>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: 25 Jun 1993 22:30:39 -0600 (CST)
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I just joined the list and don't know enough Klingon to transcribe this, but
I saw that someone was asking about this article. I hope that no one minds
my posting it.
Mary Ruth
LIMRT@TTACS.TTU.EDU
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>From the Indiana Daily Student. (Indiana University Newspaper)
Associated Press.
KLINGONS SET UP CAMP IN MINNESOTA: Language resort for Trekkies brings
alien culture to life.
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RED LAKE FALLS, Minn -- Road signs point out the way to and out of
this world language camp this summer: Dog ngeng pum Dag majghos! naDey
tlihingan Hol jatlhlu! Welocome to Red Lake Falls! Klingon spoken here!
Earthling fans of the original Star Trek series gather Aug.15 to 28 in
northwestern Minnesota for what's billed as the first Klingon Language Camp.
Klingons, the swarty, militant adversaries of the Federation, spoke
English in front of the TV cameras. But Paramount Studios enlisted a linguist
expert to devise a language for one of it's movies so that the Klingons could
talk in their own toungue.
Besides "The Klingon Dictionary" there's a cassette tape in
conversational Klingon, a Klingon Language Institute and a quarterly
newsletter.
Linguist Glen Proechel is helping organize the event even though he's
not a big Trekkie.
"It has no direct practical application whatsoever because nobody
speakes it. Indirectly, it has all kinds of applications, as with any
intellectual excersie," Proechel said.
Besides five language lessons a day and small group sessions for
learning conversation, the camp will feature softball, volleyball, tubing on
the Red Lake River, Bingo (using Klingon numbers) and treasure hunts.
Dealing with the militant Klingon culture poses some problems in
planning activities for the summer camp, however.
We are having some problems with the vocabulary," Proechel said. "K
lingons don't play softball, for example. We decided the pitchers would be the
"gunman" and the first baseman would be the "guard." Instead of "safe" and
"out," we'll have "live" and "dead."
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