Will Klingon still be the language of our future?
From 2006:
Sci-fi ... Klingon warship
Posted on 11/21/2009 2:58:43 PM PST by Stoat
Linguist Dr d'Armond Speers came up with the idea after watching an episode of Star Trek. He spent days translating phrases into Klingon - hoping his toddler's first word would be "vav" rather than "dad".
Dr Speers, of Minnesota, US, battled on with commands like "find the USS Enterprise", - but his wife only spoke English to the infant.
He said: "He was definitely starting to learn it. When Alec spoke back to me in Klingon his pronunciation was excellent."
Dr Speers experienced problems with his project as the alien language lacked common words like "diaper" and "bottle."
He was forced to use phrases like "thing which is flat" for "table". Eventually he abandoned his scheme, admitting his son "stopped listening to me when I spoke in Klingon". He added: "It was clear he didn't enjoy it."
Alec, now 13, doesn't speak a word of Klingon.
Dr Speers denied being a Trekkie, saying: "I don't go to conventions or wear fake foreheads. I'm a linguist. I get nostalgic when I look back at singing the Klingon lullaby May The Empire Endure."
Actor Leonard Nimoy, who played Capt Kirk's pal Mr Spock, and writer Harve Bennett wanted the alien Klingons to speak a "proper language" and roped in an expert to develop one.
Klingon has 21 consonants and five vowels and is the most spoken fictional language.
THINKING of teaching your Next Generation how to speak Klingon? Here are some words and phrases that might be useful to toddlers:
jIH neH wIj SoS: I want my mum
laH jIH ghaj 'op sweets: Can I have sweets?
jIH neH Daq jaH: I want to go home
jIH muSHa' SoH: I love you
baghneQ: spoon
bIQ: water
bor: gurgle
bur: hiccup
chuy: sneeze
qab: face
Quch: happy
qo'qaD: phlegm
Sa'Hut: bum
SenwI: thumb
Soj: food
tugh: hurry up
By LINDA BLAIR
Child Psychologist
IF you expose babies to two or more languages their language development is usually delayed.
A baby's brain is like a sponge. I always urge parents to teach kids more from the start. But to expose a child only to a language no one around him is speaking is irresponsible.
But this child was spoken to in English by others so I don't see the harm.
Linguist reveals I only spoke in Klingon to my son for three years Mail Online
Linguist: Dr d'Armond Speers denies he is a Star Trek enthusiast
The dad who only talked to his son in Klingon Technically Incorrect - CNET News
Will Klingon still be the language of our future?
From 2006:
Star Trek blade seized The Sun News
Deadly ... officer with 5-foot blade
(edit)
Officers seized the three-handled sword ? which has huge pointed blades at either end ? at a home in Gloucester.
It was shown yesterday at the start of a five-week national knife amnesty. Cops hope 30,000 blades will be handed in, with owners free from prosecution. (edit)
He said: “It is a particularly nasty weapon which could easily take someone’s head off.”
Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker launched the amnesty in St John’s Wood, North West London. He said: “We are determined to get the scourge of knife crime off our streets.”
Liberal parenting ping
What a freakin moron.
Montaigne’s family spoke nothing but Latin to him for the first years of his life. Of course a knowledge of Latin is far more useful than a knowledge of Klingon.
I have one of those. (Batleff)
Problem is Klingon isn't an "alien" language. It's an earth language made up by earthlings. He would have had the same results with German, French, Chinese, or any other language he did not know and had to try to teach from a book to a baby.
Maybe he’s going to teach the kid hamberger flipping by age six.
Liberals shouldn’t be allowed to raise children.
Article from 1996, when the kid was 2:
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=10873
Here’s the song that the father sang to his son as a lullaby:
“May the empire endure, and may our emperor endure
We serve him, so that he may honor us
Our empire is wonderful, and if anyone disagrees,
We will crush them beneath our boots!”
No surprise that this idiot’s Facebook page lists the Democrats and The Rachel Maddow Show as faves.
And here’s a comment he made in 2002. (Wonder what he thinks of O’s economy?):
“Tuesday, December 31, 2002
As of Friday, January 3, 2003, I am no longer at Requisite Technology. Currently unemployed, looking for work. It’s the worst unemployment rate since 1991 (thanks, W.), hell of a time to be looking for a job. “
The father is inconsolable.
two of my brother's sons were only spoken to in Spanish by their parents until they were about 4... (my brother's first language is English, but he can speak Spanish, his wife's first language is Spanish, but she can speak English)... both boys are now fluent in both languages... it did not take them long to pick up English... believe me, the rest of us in the family were concerned that the boys were only going to know Spanish... my brother kepting telling us not to worry about it... it worked out in the end...
Dad drank a lot.
I raised my kids speaking only spanish to them for the first 5 years of their lives and started them on English once they started school. They were speaking English within weeks.
Yeah, well, when they come for MY Batlev they will have to pry it loose from my cold dead fingers
My wife speaks to our infant son in Russian, her native language. Being that we attend a Russian church and half my son's relatives live in Ukraine, he'll probably get a chance, at some point in his life, to use this second language.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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