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== Trek Book Review ==
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''Book reviews and a chance to air your opinion''

'''The Klingon Dictionary''' by Marc Okrand
191 pages, Cover price $12.00 US, 16.00 CA, 5.83 pounds UK, ISBN 0-671-74559-X, Published by Pocket Books, a division of Simon and Schuster

Have you ever wanted to learn to speak the Klingon language? If you play a Klingon on your ship or in any roleplay situation, then this book could be useful for you. This is a comprehensive sourcebook for Klingon language, syntax, fundamental grammar rules, and expression. Included are a precise pronunciation guide, commands in clipped Klingon, proper uses of suffixes and affixes, conjuctions, exclamations and superlatives, and both simple and complex sentence structure.

As an extra added bonus, if you are having trouble mastering the basics, there is a translation and pronunciation guide of important phrases such as "Success!" "Surrender or die!" and my personal favorite, "Where do you keep the chocolate?" Chapters cover syntactic markers, possession, simple and complex nouns and verbs, compound sentences, subordinate clauses, questions, honorifics and much more.  

The author, Marc Okrand, designed and developed the Klingon language and culture for the Star Trek feature films and Star Trek: Next Generation. So this book is straight from the mouth of the targ. 

Its companion piece, a recording entitled '''Conversational Klingon''' ISBN- 13: 978-0671797393 is very amusing and is narrated by Michael Dorn and features the author Marc Okrand. It is available only as used in both tape and CD and is helpful for perfecting speaking this guttural yet disciplined language. Look for it wherever '''The Klingon Dictionary''' is sold to obtain a copy.