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From: Captain Krankor <krankor@codex.prds.cdx.mot.com>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 93 22:05:37 -0400
Greetings, all. I've been away for a few days, so I'm not up to date,
but I did get this mail from Lawrence Schoen who asked me to forward it.
Apparently some people are STILL having difficulties posting to the list.
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To: rich@codex.com
Subject: Help
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 93 01:30:36 EDT
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Rich,
I've been trying to post this to the mailing list for several days but it
keeps bouncing back. Would you mind posting it for me? The mailer-demon
seems to like you. Thanks.
Lawrence
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Hmm... I sent this to the list a couple days ago and it bounced back. Let's
try again...
As some of you know, a writer at the Chicago Tribune did a rather nice
article about the Klingon Language Institute a few weeks back. This
articlethen went out on the wire and seems to have appeared in more than
fifty newspapers in the USA and Canada. It's kept me busy. I've done
follow-up interviews, and several radio shows since then. I've also received
more than 1000 letters of inquiry.
The Trib article was a result of a short letter one of our members wrote in
response to something in TV Guide. These things have a way of snowballing.
Apparently someone at TIME saw the Trib article and commissioned a piece on
the Klingon language.
The writer called me, and we spoke at great length. He told me he'd talked
with Marc Okrand, and that in fact Marc was trying to call me but didn't have
my new number. This gave me a fine excuse to call Marc again and we had a
great chat for over an hour, mostly sharing tales of astonishment at the size
of response from the public.
Anyway, the writer from TIME asked me to turn him onto some Klingon speakers.
I told him I'd want to get clearance from them first; I don't like handing
out phone numbers, especially to reporters. So, I called David Barron, Eli
Israel, and of course Captain Krankor. After a bit of phone tag I was able
to get through to David and Eli and received their permission to pass contact
numbers on to the reporter. The good captain and I seemed to play phone tag
for several days, but without success. Since he figures so prominently in he
TIME article I'm assuming that Eli was able to accomplish what I could not
and put the Grammarian in touch with the Writer.
All in all, I'm disappointed in the article. From my discussions with the
writer I think it was cut considerably, and rather badly. Ignoring the
factual errors in the piece, it doesn't really go anywhere. It doesn't
describe the purpose or goal of the KLI, it doesn't give you a hint of how to
contact the tlhIngan Hol mailing list, and perhaps most ironically, it
disguises Captain Krankor by listing him only by his "real" name which no one
(as he made clear to me) involved in Klingon knows him by.
Still, hard to argue with the fact that an appearance in TIME is heady stuff
indeed. I was pleased to see that the two things I insisted on to the writer
did get in the article, namely the KLI's address and the plea for people to
send SASE. Already the mail is coming in (though sometimes it's hard to
distinguish from the continuing mail from the Trib spinoffs) from the TIME
article.
Where will it go from here? Well, this morning I did an interview with a
radio service that will be distributed to 1100 radio stations in the USA and
Canada, so don't be surprised to hear a blurb about the KLI during the
morning drive time in the weeks to come.
And, if that weren't enough, I'm getting calls from the TODAY SHOW. I keep
managing to miss the calls, but I'm assuming it's about doing an interview.
The big questions of course are 1) will I get Bryant or Katie, and 2) will
they let me help Willard do the weather in Klingon? What do you think
Captain? Can you help me some meteorlogical phrases?
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:: Dr Lawrence M Schoen, Director ::
:: The Klingon Language Institute ::
:: POB 634, Flourtown, PA 19031 USA ::
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Some comments of my own:
I didn't really get much of a sense of what the article was going to be, so
I wasn't disappointed when I read it-- I had no expectations at all. So,
I agree with Lawrence's criticisms, but frankly it's kind of hard to see how
a publication like Time could do much better on an article of that nature--
i.e. a one-page human-interest-type filler piece (it certainly isn't 'hard news
').
So, I stand by my statement about the donkey. If nothing else, interested
people now know how to contact the KLI, and, hopefully, can find out how to
get on our list here from the institute. And besides, now I've been on radio,
and it looks like a local TV interview is gonna come together. {{:-)
And, Lawrence, I'm certainly available for any help you want with meteorology {
{:-)
--Krankor
