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Who is ter'eS?

Well, since you asked:

In Brief

Personal:
- AKA Terry Donnelly
- Married 20 years
- 3 children
Professional:
- Former professional translator
- Served for a time as an ESL tutor
- Worked as a library automation programmer and system administrator
- Currently employed as a Library Director
Avocations (besides languages):
- Gardening
- Music (choir singing and guitar)
- tai chi
- Computers and programming (for fun)
- Animation

Languages

My main hobby is languages, natural and constructed. So far as natural languages are concerned, I studied Russian in college and translated it and taught Russian ESL students for several years. I taught myself Greek and Arabic, but haven't kept up with either too much. I took Latin and Spanish in school, but don't remember much of either. I have more than a casual knowledge of Japanese and Swahili and a nodding acquaintance with probably 20 more languages (i.e., I've read a grammar cover to cover at least once). I recently developed an interest in Ancient Egyptian. You can see my Webpage on that topic here.

I've been an active student of Klingon for about 15 years and a member of the Klingon Language Institute for about 12. Someone on the Klingon language mailing list once posted a 10-question quiz to see if you were obsessed with Klingon. I scored 9 out of 10 (I'm not proud of this fact!). As for other constructed languages, I've completed the correspondance course of the Esperanto League of North America and read the recently-published grammar of Lojban put out by the Logical Language Group. I have also written my own constructed languages, generally to support some fictional world I was developing. You can see my conlang materials at this website

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