Who speaks Klingon ?

Tue May 13, 2003 2:36 pm by Eraser

This is an actual news article:

US mental group seeks Klingon interpreter

A mental health organisation in the US state of Oregon needs an interpreter who can speak Klingon. The language created for Star Trek is one of about 55 needed by the office that treats mental health patients in metropolitan Multnomah County. Multnomah County research has found many people consider Klingon to be a complete language. Although created for works of fiction, Klingon was designed to have a consistent grammar, syntax and vocabulary.
"There are some cases where we've had mental health patients where this was all they would speak," said county official, Franna Hathaway. The officials say they're obligated to respond with a Klingon-English interpreter, putting the language on a par with less common tongues like Dari and Tongan.

So, does anyone of you speak Klingon ?

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Tue May 13, 2003 2:51 pm by zlo

Those guys must be nuts! (wait, they indeed are

)
I've heard of some guys who were learning Elvish. What's next?

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Tue May 13, 2003 2:54 pm by Top-Gun

I have a Klingon Directory and a Conversational Klingon audio tape (Both Prizes that I won). I don't speak a word of Klingon though

Elvish is considered by many to be a complete language

Tue May 13, 2003 3:09 pm by Arcon

ive got the cd rom...i always wanted to learn though, itd be cool, i thin i will one day

-arcon
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Tue May 13, 2003 3:28 pm by Top-Gun

Me too Arcon, you could Insult someone in Klingon and they would know what you said

"A TopGun through and through"

Tue May 13, 2003 3:34 pm by StarShock

whats the point of insulting some one in a language they don't under stand, you may aswell just think the insult at them, personaly i prefer going out of my way to insult someone in there own lanuage

Tue May 13, 2003 3:35 pm by Top-Gun

In some ways Klingon sounds like German

"A TopGun through and through"

Tue May 13, 2003 4:02 pm by Kokopelli

Here's some links for anyone wanting to learn Quenya for s**ts and giggles.

http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/
http://www.stormpages.com/axana/dictionaries.html
http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/wordlists.htm

I found those and several others by googling the topic, "learn Elven langauge."
Anyone wanting to learn Klingon could probably find similar results as I've seen the links for it. Wonder if they have sites to learn Kilrathi while we're on the topic.

The last words of a merchant: "Don't waste your ammo"

Tue May 13, 2003 5:07 pm by Ugnaught

'cotton candy' spelled backwards is 'ydnac nottoc' which in Klingon means "you suck beyond suck!" Actually it loses something in the translation. Don't say this to any Klingon unless you've got him covered with your phaser.

Only in the Peoples Republic of Oregon would they ask a mental health professional to learn to speak Klingon to crazy people. Why don't they just get people who speak Spanish and see if they can trick the nuts into thinking it's Klingon?

Let's get those missiles ready to destroy the universe!!

Tue May 13, 2003 5:33 pm by Top-Gun

I would have thought that they wouldn't want the patients to get too attached to something like Star Trek. They would have a new breed of Crazy Trekkers

"A TopGun through and through"

Tue May 13, 2003 5:57 pm by Kokopelli

Maybe they're searching for cast members for the next Trek film.

The crew of the Enterprise finds a band of Klingons that went mad from working b.s. jobs for 20-years... Wait - that's my life.

The last words of a merchant: "Don't waste your ammo"

Edited by - ***opelli on 13-05-2003 18:57:25

Tue May 13, 2003 6:24 pm by Recusant

I heard Klingon was a mixture of Welsh and Russian, there was some news article a few years back of some stupid girl taking a degree in Klingon!!

Tue May 13, 2003 6:29 pm by Top-Gun

No she didn't take a degree in Klingon, if it's the person I'm thinking about, but she did her dissertation on whether or not Klingon was a real Lang.

She was a student at my University, and it was back in 1996 that she did this. She was also the founder of my University's Sci-Fi Society, which I am a member of

"A TopGun through and through"

Tue May 13, 2003 7:43 pm by Argonus

I heard about this on the radio this morning...

But as I just found on CNN....

Check this out....Talk about having no spine....

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Edited by - Argonus on 13-05-2003 20:53:31

Tue May 13, 2003 10:14 pm by JTCurry5

i just read the article (brought to us by argonus) and those interpreters got blown off! HAHA suckers...

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