<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I can name 10 (plus myself) who have participated at qa'vIn qep and jawmeH qep who I can have a Klingon conversation with.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Then there are multiple people who I haven't personally discussed with but who I assume can speak Klingon. I think the 20-30 people number sounds quite correct.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">fergusq</div><div class="protonmail_signature_block" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">
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On Sunday, April 23rd, 2023 at 18.03, De'vID via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org> wrote:<br><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 8:51 AM De'vID <<a href="mailto:de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">When people find out I speak Klingon, I am sometimes asked (as I'm<br>
sure you all are) how many people in the world can carry out a<br>
conversation in it. Previously I've given an answer like "about<br>
20-30", which is what the Internet claims. [...]<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>Following up on a thread I started a decade (!) ago. At the time, we sort-of-confirmed the number of "20-30" people who could carry out a conversation in Klingon. (We didn't really prove it, but we weren't really able to prove there were more, and the range seems in the ballpark.)</div><div><br></div><div>Since then, though, I've had several more conversations with people who learned Klingon through Duolingo. I wonder, then, should the number of people who can converse in Klingon be revised to a much higher range? Have others also had conversations with people who learned Klingon through Duolingo, or other means? </div><div><br></div><div>(Aside: An interesting observation is that Duolingo speakers have a dialect: because arbitrary vocabulary choices were made in Duolingo where there are equally valid ways to say something, Duolingo speakers will use the words and grammar favoured by the course.)</div><div><br></div><div>OTOH, maybe some speakers who were included in the original 20-30 count have dropped out of their interest in Klingon and can't hold a conversation any more.</div><div><br></div></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div class="gmail_signature" dir="ltr">De'vID</div></div>
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