Libreoffice 7.3 Will Ship With Support For Two Made-Up Languages; Klingon And Interslavic

[kestrell]

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The popular open-source office suite, LibreOffice, will support two constructed (made-up) languages from early February with the launch of LibreOffice 7.3. The two languages are Star Trek's Klingon — the language of the Klingons, and Interslavic, a language that's supposed to bridge the language gap between Slavic languages such as Russian and Polish
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Well that's vital customer service!

[jesse_the_k]

Arita Okrent's 2009 book, In the Land of Invented Languages dives deep into Klingon.

It's intriguing and scattered. Many tidbits about constructed languages and the intellectual contexts in which they flourished, from Hildegard von Biden's 12th C Lingua Ifnota to 2007's Dritok. Weirdly Okrent mocks language constructors while studying Klingon.

(sorry for the radio silence lately.)

Re: Well that's vital customer service!

[kestrell]

I've read some other books about constructed languages--I have a training class in a half hour and I need to check my laundry before that, so no time to check titles right now--but I'll add this one to my to be read list, because obviously that list isn't long enough yet.

My favorite constructed language is the one from Star Trek: Nex gen, where Picard is stranded on a planet with another commander, who speaks in phrases such as "when the walls fell." I want someone to add to that language, or at least, write more about it.

Did you know you can turn the language for Google search into Klingon? I thought it would be really cool to do that one time, but forgot that it would be more problematical to turn the interface back to English, at least, it is if you can't see/recognize the buttons.

I'm just crawling out of some serious no spoons radio silence, so no need to apologize.