tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Sep 17 14:20:23 2012
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon at the MLA
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Klingonteacher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:[email protected]"; target="_blank">[email protected]</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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By the way, according to wikipedia, Lawrence M. Schoen once guessed the number of fluent speakers at 12 worldwide, but it was in 1996. Are there new, or better numbers?? If there is, wikipedia needs a reference.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Wikipedia is likely quoting a newspaper or magazine article citing one of the hundreds of interviews I've given over the past 20 years. And, more often than not, the reporter mangled many of the details, in every single published interview.</div>
<div><br></div><div>And too, the real question is how you want to define "fluent." At the most extreme level, 12 probably isn't that far off. But still...</div><div><br></div><div>Lawrence</div>-- <br>author / publisher / psychologist / klingonist<br>
<a href="http://www.lawrencemschoen.com";>http://www.lawrencemschoen.com</a><br>
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