Klingon Language Institute
[1] For 13 years, it published a quarterly journal HolQeD (Klingon for "linguistics"), before discontinuing the paper mailings and changing to an electronic version which quickly stopped entirely.It now publishes a number of translated works, including The Wizard of Oz, the Tao Te Ching, the Epic of Gilgamesh, Much Ado About Nothing and others.Each year, the KLI hosts a five-day conference called the qepʼaʼ (Klingon for "great meeting"), which is open to both members and anyone interested in the language.[citation needed] The KLI was founded in 1992 in Flourtown, Pennsylvania by psychology researcher and linguistics writer Lawrence M. Schoen, with the intention of launching and operating a more in-depth organization from which he and others could work in "an ongoing career of lectures at conventions and museums across three continents, and [aid in] the development of a loose affiliation of language scholars and amateurs throughout fifty countries" which were dedicated to "the world's most popular fictional language".During the 1990s and 2000s, at intervals ranging from three to eighteen months, a Beginners Grammarian was elected from among the most experienced intermediate level speakers on the tlhIngan Hol mailing list operated by the KLI.Its recipients are Alan Anderson, William Martin, Mark Shoulson, Rich Yampell, D'Armond Speers, Nick Nicholas, Robyn Stewart, Eric Andeen, Jeremy Cowan, Chris Lipscombe and Lieven L.