Linguist - Marc Okrand

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Linguist Marc Okrand is interviewed by hosts Bryan Kreutz, Ambassador to the fans, (Star Trek fans) and Lili Fox-Lim. Okrand discusses his creation of the Kelpian, Vulcan languages, among his most well-known creation of the Klingon Language. Okrand shares his inside stories on instructing Leonard Nimoy and Kirstie Alley on a Vulcan language for the hit film Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan. Lili asks Marc specifically on his study of native American and Mutsun Grammar. Bryan asks Marc if he has any estimates about how many hours it would take to achieve fluency in Klingon with the use of Marc's "Conversational Klingon audio book" plus using Marc's Klingon dictionary book. Animated android Rogg adds his two to three cents of his own sense. Bryan and Lili are Completely fascinated by Marc's stories of his days on the Star Trek feature films calling them, quote, "good inside stories we've never heard."