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To: TigersEye
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.

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.

54 posted on 11/21/2009 11:13:04 PM PST by Stoat (Sarah Palin 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
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To: Stoat

It’s truly amazing. I guess his kid is lucky his dad isn’t a researcher in radioactive materials or an entomologist specializing in meat eating insects.


55 posted on 11/21/2009 11:21:32 PM PST by TigersEye (Sarah Palin 2010 - We Can't Afford To Wait)
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