No joke: the Brigittenau Center for Adult Education in Vienna is offering Klingon courses in the fall. This is the language of the aliens of the same name in the Star Trek universe. So that no one can say: “qayajbe’ jIH” (I don’t understand you).
They are supposed to be proud, ruthless and brutal, the Klingons. And they don’t look very friendly either. But the sounds that the humanoid creatures make are a full-fledged language. With 26 letters, nouns, verbs and characters vaguely reminiscent of Japanese.
American linguist Marc Okrand developed the language and his own dictionary after joining Paramount Pictures in the 1980s. Okrand would teach Klingon to the actors in the Star Trek series.
Courses for beginners
You too could soon – if you want – talk to like-minded people in this way. On October 31 there will be “Klingon for Beginners” at the VHS Brigittenau (course costs: 14 euros). The “Klingon A1” level (November 11 to December 16, costs 82 euros) is intended to enable participants to “pronounce basic sentences that allow us to communicate simply but correctly in (Klingon) everyday situations.” This is stated in the course description.
For example: “tlhIngan jIHbe” (see title above) means “I am not Klingon” (literally: Klingon, not me). It might be useful to know that.
The course is led by Dr. Ernst Buchberger (Klingon name “SaghwI”), a Viennese Klingonist who worked on artificial intelligence as a day job at the Medical University of Vienna.
If you are interested in the philosophical aspects of the Enterprise series, there will be a discussion evening in the VHS Landstrasse on December 5. Dr. Erik Bauer will shed light on the deep socio-political themes of Stark Trek.
Previously (October 24), the VHS Liesing was about hyperspaces, wormholes, impulse drives and warp cores. So with the physics behind science fiction series. Well: “Qapla’!” (Live long and in peace!).
Info: https://www.vhs.at/de/b/2024/09/30/startrek#klingonischkurse
Source: Krone
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