tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jun 07 18:00:08 1995
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Re: Invent Your Own Klingon Dialect
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Invent Your Own Klingon Dialect
- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 20:59:37 -0400
In a message dated 95-06-06 21:40:40 EDT, you write:
>From: [email protected] (Jeffrey Henning)
>Sender: [email protected]
>Reply-to: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Here's your chance to create your own Klingon language or dialect,
>perhaps
>spoken by Klingons on a forgotten outpost from an ancient war or the
>private
>language of a noble family. Or you can postulate what the Klingon
>language
>might look like a thousand years more into the future. To learn
>more, check out
>the latest issue of _Model Languages_.
>
>_Model Languages_ is a free electronic newsletter published monthly
>and
>providing detailed articles about different aspects of model, or
>constructed,
>languages. Since sometimes creating a model language can seem
>overwhelming,
>the June issue provides detailed instructions on how you can create a
>simple
>language for creating names in just an hour or two. The issue
>discusses
>language change, how you can use an ancestral tongue (like thlingan)
>to create
>your own language, the basics of sound and sound change, and the 150
>words that
>can be used to generate millions of names for people and places. The
>issue
>concludes by giving three small model languages as an example.
>Additionally,
>we're having a contest where we are asking people to submit their own
>language
>or languages for coining names, and we'll be publishing the winner in
>a future
>issue.
>
>To subscribe, send a message with the text "SUBSCRIBE MODLANG KL1
>[your name]"
>in the subject header to [email protected]. To retrieve just
>the latest
>issue, send a message with the text "RETRIEVE MODLANG
>2" in the header.
>
>Regards,
>Jeffrey Henning
>Editor, _Model Languages_
>
>