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Kestrell ([personal profile] kestrell) wrote2022-01-13 09:33 am

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

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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
https://www.neowin.net/news/libreoffice-73-will-ship-with-support-for-two-made-up-languages-klingon-and-interslavic/

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[personal profile] jesse_the_k 2022-01-23 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)

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.)