Klingon Language Institute
The Klingon Language Institute ( KLI, Klingon Institute and Institute for Klingon language ) is an independent organization based in the USA with the aim of promoting the Klingon language.
Generally
The CPI currently has about 2,500 members in over 50 countries on all six Kontintenten. It published between 1992 and 2005 a quarterly journal name HolQeD ( kling.: Linguistics ). This was discontinued due to rising production costs. Every year holds the KLI an open for all members and prospective qep'a ' ( kling.: " big meeting " ) from and forgives doped with $ 500 language scholarship. The KLI performs various projects, including translating the Bible and various works of Shakespeare. The motto of the Institute is qo'mey poSmoH Hol ( kling.: " Languages open worlds ").
The CPI is a non-profit organization and has to use the contractual consent of Paramount Pictures, protected terms such as " Klingon " and " Star Trek ."
History
The CPI was founded in 1992 in Flourtown, Pennsylvania (USA).
Every year in summer, a five-day annual meeting called qep'a 'instead, which is open to all members and interested parties. There Klingon is spoken and discussed during the seminar - style. These meetings were all - except for the eighth meeting in 2001 in Brussels - without exception in the USA. Parallel to organize many of the members regular qepHom ( kling.: " small gathering " ), informal gatherings to practice the Klingon language. The largest of these smaller meeting takes place annually since 2002 in Saarbrücken.
In 2003, a documentary called Earthlings, ugly bags of mostly water was on the qep'a 'is rotated about the KLI, which was presented at the Cannes Film Festival and was released in Germany in 2006.
Organization
The director of the KLI is the founder Lawrence M. Schoen, Ph. D.
At irregular intervals of three to 18 months, a so-called Beginners' Grammarian is selected ( the grammarian beginners ) from the most experienced members. Its mission is to help the beginners, especially in Klingon E -mail forum, which is also open to non-members. If this supervisor has completed his service, he retains his title. Meanwhile, the CPI has about 20 such former Beginners' grams Arians.
The KLI is in close contact with Marc Okrand, the inventor of the Klingon language. Since the third qep'a ' he has visited each other and participated in 2011 at the Saarbrücken qepHom. On this occasion he occasionally receives a wish list for lack of Klingon vocabulary, which he answered regularly. These new words were first published until 2005 in HolQeD and on the website of the KLI, today only through the e -mail forum.
Notable speakers
Some Klingonisten have achieved by their actions a relative degree of popularity. The KLI can give a Klingonisten who has been particularly committed to the language, the title Friend of Maltz. This title is based on the introduction of the official Klingon dictionary, which outlines that a Klingon prisoner, Maltz told us the language. Symbolically, this name stands today for Marc Okrand.
Rich Yampell
Rich Yampell, known as Klingonisten as " Captain Krankor " is a programmer based in Bellevue, Washington. He is regarded as one of the first fluent speaking Klingonisten. He is the author of The Grammarian 's Desk, published in 1996 by the KLI. Yampell also has authored and co -authored several songs, such as the Klingon anthem taHjaj where. ' ( Music and lyrics ), ' Iv maH ( music and lyrics ) and Yih bom (Music)
D' Armond Speers
Dr. d' Armond Speers is an American computer linguist and also a longtime member of the KLI.
He received his degree in the spring of 2002 at Georgetown University with a thesis on the representation of the American sign language for machine translation.
Dr. Speers has become known that he has tried to educate his son bilingual in English and Klingon. He spoke in Klingon and his wife in English. After several years, the boy began to reject the Klingon and speak more English, because he could use it more often. The fact that there are not some important concepts for children such as " diaper" or " pacifier " in Klingon, was less of the occasion. In the time of Speers ' attempt lacked the Klingon language, many other important concepts, such as the word for "table". The experiment was terminated when the child no longer wanted to speak the Klingon language.
Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen is the founder of KLI. He is the editor of the Journal HolQeD and wrote the lyrics for the song Yih bom. With two exceptions, he has each of the annual meetings called qep'a ' organized.
He won the BA in Psycholinguistics at the California State University at Northridge, and then the master and doctorate degrees in psychology at Kansas State University. He has worked at various American universities as a researcher, lecturer and professor.
He is also a professional science fiction writer, for years a member of the SFWA and was nominated for the John W. Campbell Best New Writer Award in 2007.
He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and maintains a mailbox in Flourtown, Pennsylvania, the international headquarters of the KLI.
Publications
- HolQeD
- A Pictorial Guide to the verbal suffix of tlhIngan Hol. 1995, ISBN 0-9644345-0-4
- GhIlghameS. 2000, ISBN 1-58715-338-6
- The Klingon Hamlet. 2000, ISBN 0-671-03578-9
- Much Ado about Nothing in Klingon. 2003, ISBN 1-58715-501- X
- From the Grammarian 's Desk. ISBN 0-9644345-3-9
- Tao Te Ching, 2008
Cooperations
Since the best Klingon experts are gathered in the KLI, it is often consulted for translation work for commercial products to verify their accuracy. This work can go from pure proofreading to complete translations.
- Star Trek: Klingons - " Blood Will Tell"
- Klingon Monopoly (2011)
- Paq'batlh (2011)
- Manual of the Klingon Bird of Prey (2013 )
- How to speak Klingon (2013 )