#dr marc okrand

[daily-klingon]

My manager at work loves that I’m trying to learn klingon, and has said that if I know how to do closing announcements in klingon he would let me do it. How would I say the store is closing in x minutes or that the store is closed?

qaSDI' X tup ngevwI'vam SoQmoHlu' This store closes in X minutes qaSDI' wa' rep ngevwI'vam SoQmoHlu' This store closes in one hour qaSDI' rep bID ngevwI'vam SoQmoHlu' This store closes in half an hour qaSDI' wa'maH tup ngevwI'vam SoQmoHlu' This store closes in ten minutes tugh ngevwI'vam SoQmoHlu' This store is closing soon DaH ngevwI'vam SoQchoHlu' This store is closing now DaH ngevwI'vam SoQlu' This store is now closed SuratlhtaHchugh yotwI'pu' bomoj if you remain, you will all be intruders DaH ngevwI'vo' yImej Leave the store! Now!

[chaotic-hypnotic-erotic]

neqjung wa’DIch jaj botIvjaj Happy First Contact Day!

Celebrating First Contact between the Klingons and Earthers, on this day in 2151.

Also, rest easy, Tommy “Tiny” Lister, the actor, taken from us back on December 11 2020.

[tower-of-hana]

Intro Post

This post will probably be updated as things come up so make sure to pay attention to it.

Who Are You?

Salvēte omines It's me, Hana. I am a conlanger, linguist, and demigirl from the United States and my pronouns are she/it. I also do Latin things sometimes because that is part of my background.

How Do You Pronounce Your Name?

I prefer /xana/ (German ch + anna) as it is a Gothic name but I accept /hana/ (it's pronounced the way it looks) too.

What Is a Conlanger?

A conlanger is a person who makes fictional languages, think David Peterson (Dothraki/Valyrian etc.), Marc Okrand (Klingon), Dr. Zamenhof (Esperanto). Tolkien (Sindarin, Quenya etc.)

What Are Your Profiles?

Here are the active ones

Conlangs only blog

ConWorkShop

CBB

Discord: saussureancatgirl

Bluesky

What Do You Post?

Sometimes I will post a bit of what I am working on and sometimes I will shitpost about linguistics. Sometimes I do neither of those things and post about other stuff.

What Conlangs Are You Working On Right Now?

The only conlang I am working on right now is Jallo (d͡zaɬo). I will probably start a new one at some point.

Do You Accept Asks?

Yes please reach out to me about anything.

What Is Your Policy for Finding People's Pronouns?

I will check every piece of social media linked in bio and the bios of those social media sites until I run out of places to look at which point your pronouns are they/them until you tell me otherwise.

Politics?

While I am on the left I probably save my political engagement and most of my angry ranting for. The reason I have this blog is because I wanted to shitpost about linguistics and my (small) group of followers were built off negative political engagement. It made me genuinely miserable and so I don't post on twitter that much anymore. Maybe when/if twitter goes under I will make a sideblog but idk. I guess what I'm saying is I probably won't argue with you.

What Is Your Opinion on This Sexuality/Gender/Kink?

I can't be bothered to list out my opinion on every separate sexuality/gender/kink you might have but as long as it is consensual (children and animals can't consent) it's probably good.

How Do You Filter Your Content?

I try to use common sense when I tag/cw/apply labels to my posts for things that I think will upset people but if you need me to do it differently then please feel free to send me a message. I don't make a lot of posts that require censoring.

What Are Your Opinions on Proship/Antiship?

The terms proship/antiship are so variable that they are completely meaningless so I can't really say.

[illunaparkdelleemozioni]

Diretta alle 19.30 con Andrea

🎙️ Diretta su Radio Cantù FM 89.6 alle ore 19:30 (17:30 UTC)

📌Per iniziare bene la settimana torna Star Trek, sempre in diretta dal mio Studio casalingo di Broni (Oltrepò Pavese). Appena sotto vi scrivo le coordinate astrali per salire a bordo dell'astronave Enterprise. (Se avete piacere!)

📻 Sintonizzatevi sugli 89.6 FM, visitate il sito di Radio Cantù FM 89.6 o scaricate l'app gratuita della radio per ascoltarmi ovunque voi siate.

🕳 Disponibile anche su Alexa e Google.

📎 Entra a far parte della mia crew, in diretta o tramite WhatsApp e Telegram al numero 3774563033 (Studio Oltrepò), e partecipa attivamente alla trasmissione.

Durante la serata, parlerò ancora una volta di Internet degli anni '90 e 2000, in particolare: Della lingua Klingon, creata da Marc Okrand per i film di Star Trek negli anni '80 e del sito web della Klingon Language Institute, fondato nel 1992 da Dr. Lawrence Schoen (il sito KLI è un punto di riferimento per chiunque sia interessato a questa lingua artificiale e alla cultura Klingon.).

[sonseraedesigns-blog]

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Posted @withregram • @tammytuckey Contests, prizes and a cast & crew reunion!? All that and more for my 20th Anniversary Fan Celebration for “Atlantis: The Lost Empire” on Tuesday, June 15th at 5:30 PM Eastern! Tune in & chat along on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/ecABcThwkW4 Here's our official guest list! Mike Mignola (Production Designer) Ed Ghertner (Layout Supervisor) Kirk Wise (Director) Marc Okrand (Creator of the Atlantean Language) Marshall Toomey (Clean-Up Supervisor) Sonserae Leese (Texture Map Painter) Gary Rydstrom (Sound Designer) Kiran Bhakta Joshi (CGI Supervisor) Frank Dietz (Breakdown Artist for Audrey) David Pruiksma (Supervising Animator for Mrs. Packard) Randy Haycock (Supervising Animator for Princess Kida) Lori Korngiebel (Post-Production Supervisor) John Sanford (Artistic Supervisor) Claudia Christian (Voice of Helga Sinclair) Alaina Yohe Kuehn (Assistant Digital Production Manager) Chris Jenkins (Artistic Coordinator) Cornelia Tzana (Co-Admin of “Atlantis: The Lost Empireposting”) Jordan Waterfield (Admin of “Atlantis: The Lost Empireposting”) Tab Murphy (Screenwriter) Ron Husband (Supervising Animator for Dr. Sweet) Gary Trousdale (Director) Kirk Bodyfelt (Assistant Artistic Coordinator) Corey Burton (Voice of Molèire) Marlon West (Visual Effects Supervisor) Phil Morris (Voice of Dr. Sweet) Dave Reynolds (Screenwriter) Don Hahn (Producer) Ricardo Delgado (Production Designer) #atlantisthelostempire #disney #animation #cganimation #disneyanimation https://www.instagram.com/p/CQEL4XtnHOT/?utm_medium=tumblr

[redpillklaudiaspiechowicz]

Atlantis The Lost Empire

“Atlantis: The Lost Empire is a 2001 American animated science-fantasy action-adventure film created by Walt Disney Feature Animation, marking the 41st entry in Disney's animated features canon and its first science-fiction film. Written by Tab Murphy, directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise. Set in 1914, the film tells the story of a young man who gains possession of a sacred book, which he believes will guide him and a crew of mercenaries to the lost city of Atlantis.

Development of the film began after production had finished on The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996). Instead of another musical, the production team decided to do an action-adventure film inspired by the works of Jules Verne. Atlantis was notable for adopting the distinctive visual style of comic book creator Mike Mignola. The film made greater use of computer-generated imagery (CGI) than any of Disney's previous traditionally animated features, and it remains one of the few to have been shot in anamorphic format. Linguist Marc Okrand constructed an Atlantean language specifically for use in Atlantis. James Newton Howard provided the film's score. The film was released at a time when audience interest in animated films was shifting away from hand-drawn animation toward films with full CGI.”

“A massive tidal wave, triggered by a distant explosion, threatens to drown the island kingdom of Atlantis. In the midst of an evacuation from the capital city, the Queen of Atlantis is caught by a strange, hypnotic blue light and lifted up into the "Heart of Atlantis", a powerful crystal protecting the city. The crystal consumes her and creates a dome barrier that protects the city's innermost district. She leaves behind her husband, the King of Atlantis, and her young daughter, Princess Kida, as the island sinks beneath the ocean.

Several thousand years later, in 1914, Milo Thatch—a cartographer and linguist at the Smithsonian Institution who is marginalized for his research on Atlantis—believes that he has found The Shepherd's Journal, an ancient manuscript allegedly containing directions to the lost island. After his proposal to search for the Journal is rejected by the museum board, a mysterious woman, Helga Sinclair, introduces Milo to Preston B. Whitmore, an eccentric millionaire. Whitmore has already funded a successful effort to retrieve the Journal as repayment of a debt to Milo's late grandfather and recruits Milo to lead an expedition to Atlantis as soon as he deciphers it.

The expedition departs with a team of specialists led by Commander Rourke, who also led the Journal recovery expedition. The crew includes Vinny, a demolitions expert; Mole, a geologist; Dr. Sweet, a medical officer; Audrey, a mechanic; Mrs. Packard, a radio operator; and Cookie, a mess cook. They set out in the Ulysses, a massive submarine, but are soon attacked by the monstrous Leviathan, a robotic lobster-like creature that guards Atlantis' entrance. The Ulysses is destroyed but Milo, Rourke, and part of the crew escape and make their way to a cavern, described in the Journal as the entrance to Atlantis.”

Reading about all the work put into the making of  The Doors of Perception made me think of this movie and specifically the character of Milo as proof that no matter how oblivious the world is to something deeming it as “fantasy” as it was called in the movie there will always be individuals that will strive to prove that what they believe in is right. This is a cocept for a character that I might design for my own story: someone that doesn’t have powers / the tattoo that would activate them but believes that people could have them and some people definitely do. The story will be from a view point of someone that does know about and has powers but adding a character that believes in these powers but doesn’t have any proof of their existance will definitely benefit the story and lead to some drama.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis:_The_Lost_Empire

[scifitalk]

Dr Marc Okrand

[apprentice-nox]

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The fictional language Atlantean was created by Dr. Marc Okrand, the same man who created the Klingon language for Star Trek. It was created for Disney's animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire. It was meant to act like a "mother-language" of practically all other spoken languages on Earth, dead and extant, like a fictional Tower of Babbel.

[leda-confessions-and-opinions]

Tolkein taught language at Oxford and knew at least three languages, including Latin. Klingon was invented by a professional linguist Dr. Marc Okrand. I'm not saying Leda needs to be a genius to write or make a new language, just it's so much easier to bend and break rules when you actually know what they are. I wish she would read Tolkein's book A Secret Vice, all about creating languages. Reading will only help her grow.

[daily-klingon]

There’s absolutely a Klingon out there who lost an eye to a feral cat that he then adopted.

vIghro’ animal resembling a cat (n) tera’ vIghro’ cat (n)

[daily-klingon]

Yes, this is a multiplication table.

A Klingon multiplication table.

tutlho’nISbe’ You don’t have to thank me

[daily-klingon]

This is how you do it.

[daily-klingon]

Happy Birthday to the Klingons!

tlhIngan maH! taHjaj! reH tlhIngan wo’ taHjaj!

[daily-klingon]

Hi! I am librarian and I'm starting today at a new job. How can I introduce myself and say that books can't not be overdue? Thank you! ❤️

(singular) paqmey'e' DatatlhDI' bIpaSchugh vaj batlhHa' bIHeghbej (plural) paqmey'e' botatlhDI' SupaSchugh vaj batlhHa' SuHeghbej

Both translate to "When you are returning the books, if you are late, then you shall certainly die without honour."

[daily-klingon]

Some words here are not listed in the diagram above.

Human porgh qoD Human anatomy (literally interior of Human body) burgh stomach (n) chayqa' oesophagus (n) chej liver (n) chI'ID uterus (n) chor midsection (n) DaynguH testicle (n) ghapqa' jaw (n) Hom bone (n) HomHap tun cartilage (n) HoS voveng thyroid (n) Hugh throat (n) HuH 'enDeq gall bladder (n) Hutvav nerve (n) luH intestine (n) mej'aD artery (n) melchoQ bone marrow (n) nobmeD skeleton (n) noq nipple (n) ngob'at breast (n) paw'aD vein (n) pIp spine (n) qey'Hav vagina (n) qo'qaD phlegm (n) QImHal ovary (n) QoghIj brain (n) rajma' kidney (n) Somraw muscle (n) tagh lung (n) telya' pancreas (n) tIq heart (n) to'waQ ligament, tendon (n) turmIq 'enDeq urinary bladder (n) 'eQway bellybutton, navel (n) 'InSep penis (n) 'IqnaH mucus (n) 'Iw blood (n) 'oSHeQ spleen (n)

[daily-klingon]

mum

mum fancy, have a crush (v)

The most common way to express this is with the verb mum, literally "taste, sense flavors."

Context generally resolves any confusion. Or, if you are caught licking somebody's Mum, maybe not.