It sounds like child abuse to me but if he wanted to see if his son would speak an invented language why didn’t he pick Tolkien’s Elven language? Tolkien was a linguist too and I’m sure he made Elven much more complete than Klingon is.
Sindarin or Quenya?
I wish children would speak proper English.
Indeed, and I am utterly thunderstruck that someone who 'apparently' has a Phd in Linguistics would even attempt such an 'experiment' without having checked out an obvious pitfall.
From the article:
Dr Speers experienced problems with his project as the alien language lacked common words like "diaper" and "bottle."
Anyone with even a minimal intelligence and no formal schooling whatsoever would look at a project like that and instantly see such a monumental problem. The fact that this twit is a lib explains it in this circumstance.