Position Available: Klingon Interpreter(Star Trek whackos alert!!)

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[Jimmyclyde]

Position Available: Klingon Interpreter

May 10, 2003 9:52 pm US/Eastern (AP) (PORTLAND, Ore. ) Position Available: Interpreter, must be fluent in Klingon.

The language created for the "Star Trek" TV series and movies is one of about 55 needed by the office that treats mental health patients in metropolitan Multnomah County.

"We have to provide information in all the languages our clients speak," said Jerry Jelusich, a procurement specialist for the county Department of Human Services, which serves about 60,000 mental health clients.

Although created for works of fiction, Klingon was designed to have a consistent grammar, syntax and vocabulary.

And now Multnomah County research has found that many people -- and not just fans -- consider it a complete language.

"There are some cases where we've had mental health patients where this was all they would speak," said the county's purchasing administrator, Franna Hathaway.

County officials said that obligates them to respond with a Klingon-English interpreter, putting the language of starship Enterprise officer Worf and other Klingon characters on a par with common languages such as Russian and Vietnamese, and less common tongues including Dari and Tongan. (© 2003 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. )

[Jimmyclyde]

LOL!!!

"Lt. Worf, this is the captain. Please report to the mental hosptial."

"Picard out."

[xp38]

Tax dollars at work. Let's hope George Lucas never expands the language of Jabba the Hutt.

[wideawake]

"There are some cases where we've had mental health patients where this was all they would speak"

I do not doubt it.

[martin_fierro]

Search is our friend.

[OXENinFLA]

Some People just need to be hit w/ a 2x4.

Is this now going to be covered by the "Patient w/ disability act"

[Jimmyclyde]

Yes it is.

But funny stories should be posted more then once, no?

[hunyb]

HA! what's the guy's name from Frasier??? the one who bugs Roz all the time......he'd be perfect for the job!! LOL!!

[martin_fierro]

No.

[ericthecurdog]

Tax dollars at work. Let's hope George Lucas never expands the language of Jabba the Hutt.

Too late.

[Jimmyclyde]

Sorry......

Dad!!

[hunyb]

Noel Shempsky!!

[fishtank]

Elvish is next on the list, too.

(No, and you can't find him in Vegas, either!)

[Jimmyclyde]

Dark elvish interpreters are going to be hard to find too.

[CommandoFrank]

The language created for the "Star Trek" TV series

You mean it's not a real language??? Oh no.....

[expat_panama]

You forgot the "Hold my gaack" alert!

[RicocheT]

So who is more crazy, the patient who thinks he speaks Klingon or the law that says he gets an interpreter??

[Consort]

This topic was better the first two times around.

[PatrioticAmerican]

Left coast.

[steve8714]

choi chook (beam me up!)

[fishtank]

No joke, you've got a great point!