CHAPTER THREE
Klingon
1. Inception of Klingon Klingon is a language made up for popular science fiction television series called Star Trek. It tells the adventures of a spaceship Enterprise and characters on this vehicle. This language was designed for a particular alien race Klingons.
During watching the show, we may encounter many alien races like The Romulans, the Ferengi or The Klingons. We can see that they speak in their own language when talking among themselves. It makes watching Star Trek more realistic when you listen different sounds and sentences than the ones you know from English. It helps you to feel the climate of the show and the more you watch it the more you are involved into this world. You start recognising those …show more content…
Further development
Dr Okrand continued to support his language, he visited various conferences and published additional books. He has also created additional vocabulary and clarified grammar rules. The second edition of Klingon Dictionary was published in 1992 and was translated into German, Italian and Portuguese.
Klingon language started to exist in popular consciousness due to its reference in television series and movies that have nothing to do with Star Trek. It also a appeared in advertising, art and as a language option in computer software. An original opera “U” was written and performed in Klingon, in addition, the adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” in Klingon has been performed for seven years.
While most of Star Trek fans know few Klingon words, and some of them may pronounce popular phrases, only a few have any degree of fluency. Learning Klingon to the degree that allows to have a casual conversation, demand to dedicate a lot of time and energy than watching the TV series. Speakers of Klingon are not always huge fans of Star Trek, they meet to discuss, have a role play, write fiction, and all that activities are in Klingon.
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Average Klingon user
Klingon is an artificial language, an addition to fiction, it was not created as a tool for natural communication among people. However, some people, especially Star Trek fans, started to use it just for fun, mainly in written form while talking on the Internet.
It leads us to a characteristic of an average Klingon user, which was made by Judith Hendriks-Hermans as the basis of her Master’s thesis. Her questionnaire is composed of three parts, the first one is focused on personal information, second on relation to Klingon, and the third part on attitude towards the language. The survey was filled by 109 people, 79 of them identified themselves as Klingon speakers. Most of them were men and the average of their age was 31.
Apart from using the same language, the Klingon community shares the same language patterns and attitude towards the language. The survey also shows that most of the Klingon speakers find their mother language easier and better in communication than Klingon. Some of the respondents believe that Klingon will survive only as a hobby which is connected to the Star Trek.
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Klingon
1. Inception of Klingon Klingon is a language made up for popular science fiction television series called Star Trek. It tells the adventures of a spaceship Enterprise and characters on this vehicle. This language was designed for a particular alien race Klingons.
During watching the show, we may encounter many alien races like The Romulans, the Ferengi or The Klingons. We can see that they speak in their own language when talking among themselves. It makes watching Star Trek more realistic when you listen different sounds and sentences than the ones you know from English. It helps you to feel the climate of the show and the more you watch it the more you are involved into this world. You start recognising those …show more content…
Further development
Dr Okrand continued to support his language, he visited various conferences and published additional books. He has also created additional vocabulary and clarified grammar rules. The second edition of Klingon Dictionary was published in 1992 and was translated into German, Italian and Portuguese.
Klingon language started to exist in popular consciousness due to its reference in television series and movies that have nothing to do with Star Trek. It also a appeared in advertising, art and as a language option in computer software. An original opera “U” was written and performed in Klingon, in addition, the adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” in Klingon has been performed for seven years.
While most of Star Trek fans know few Klingon words, and some of them may pronounce popular phrases, only a few have any degree of fluency. Learning Klingon to the degree that allows to have a casual conversation, demand to dedicate a lot of time and energy than watching the TV series. Speakers of Klingon are not always huge fans of Star Trek, they meet to discuss, have a role play, write fiction, and all that activities are in Klingon.
4. …show more content…
Average Klingon user
Klingon is an artificial language, an addition to fiction, it was not created as a tool for natural communication among people. However, some people, especially Star Trek fans, started to use it just for fun, mainly in written form while talking on the Internet.
It leads us to a characteristic of an average Klingon user, which was made by Judith Hendriks-Hermans as the basis of her Master’s thesis. Her questionnaire is composed of three parts, the first one is focused on personal information, second on relation to Klingon, and the third part on attitude towards the language. The survey was filled by 109 people, 79 of them identified themselves as Klingon speakers. Most of them were men and the average of their age was 31.
Apart from using the same language, the Klingon community shares the same language patterns and attitude towards the language. The survey also shows that most of the Klingon speakers find their mother language easier and better in communication than Klingon. Some of the respondents believe that Klingon will survive only as a hobby which is connected to the Star Trek.
6. New