Am 05.05.2020 um 07:36 schrieb De'vID:
Recently it came up in conversation about whether there are "generations" of Klingon speakers. (It came up because I have a son, who now knows a little bit of Klingon.)
I also recently thought about this while working on the Klingon Wiki, which has its seed in the KLI wiki, which started in 2002. There is this one page with Klingonists, and it's absolutely out of date. First, many of them are not active any more, some don't even live any more. Next, as per definition as "Klingonist", every person learning Klingon is a Klingonist, so I could several thousand students of Klingon. There is a separated list of "notable" speakers, including those with special achievements, and even that one needs to be changed. So, yes I agree, there are "generations" of speakers, but not from a biological vew, more of an age/time view. The first generation are those 90's Klingonists who founded the KLI and joined quickly after. 2000-2010 does not have much of change, but then we have the 2010+ generation of new people learning Klingon.
and have participated several times in Lieven's qepHom'a'. So I feel like I'm a 2nd-gener.
Anyway, I wish I had a social graph of Klingon speakers showing how people know each other (in real life, virtually, etc.) so we can visually see what the community connections look like.
This has also changed over the time. The first gen grew up with email, and still uses it, while the 2nd gen is a lot more into Facebook.
Also, I wonder how many children of Klingon speakers also speak Klingon?
I think that's very few only that can be listed on one hand. -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://www.tlhInganHol.com http://klingon.wiki/En/KLIwiki