[Tlhingan-hol] wa'Hu' jInaj.

[Will Martin]

I saw “Being George Takei” a couple days ago. There’s a scene in it of him on a stage at a con. Mark Okrand is on stage with him. Likely, that inspired the dream I had last night.

It really started with that scene. I was visiting somewhere and Marc Okrand was there. He was cheerful, as always, and friendly, as always, and he invited me into his home. Note that I didn’t add “as always”. This was the strange part.

His house was very interesting with very modern and unusual furniture and appliances. He was a very graceful host. I didn’t bother to ask “why”. I was dreaming.

Oh, and another odd part was that he spoke in continuous, swift, unrehearsed, perfect Klingon. There was something about him having a group of friends that worked together on their skills at the language, and he came out of this experience speaking Klingon like Nick Nicholas, without the Greek accent. It was stunning.

He had updated the grammar so that a higher level of specificity was now possible in the area of aspect. You could now very naturally express a start and end time for the action, both from a start time stamp and end time stamp form, and from a “give or take X amount of time” version giving a time span to an event.

It all made perfect sense at the time, though of course, I was dreaming, and in dreams things can make sense that don’t make sense upon waking.

Cottage Cheese.

I had a dream once where “cottage cheese” was the secret of the Universe. It answered all questions and solved all problems.

Were that reality were so simple.

Or Klingon grammar, for that matter.

pItlh
lojmIt tI'wI'nuv



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