Human Father Speaks Only Klingon To His Young Son for Three Years

Posted by John Farrier in Baby & Kids, Movies & SciFi on November 18, 2009 at 8:51 pm

As one might expect from any involved and nurturing father, d’Armond Speers of Minnesota spoke only Klingon to his son for the first three years of his life. Hart Van Denburg writes in Citypages:

“I was interested in the question of whether my son, going through his first language acquisition process, would acquire it like any human language,” Speers told the Minnesota Daily. “He was definitely starting to learn it.”

And get this, Speers says he isn’t really a huge Star Trek fan.

We’ll take his word for it.

Does the fact that Speers has a doctorate in computational linguistics explain anything — or excuse anything — here? Maybe. His child-rearing habits were part of a larger story on the company he advises, Ultralingua, which develops language and translation software. Including Klingon.

Link via Geekologie | Image: Paramount

 
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Klingon Military Recruiting Video

Posted by John Farrier in Movies & SciFi, Video Clips on October 26, 2009 at 11:13 am


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Meredith Woerner of the sci-fi blog io9 suspects that this video might be viral marketing for the next Star Trek movie. Ostensibly, it’s a Klingon military recruiting commercial. I’m not sure what is the original language, but thankfully it’s been dubbed into Klingon for your convenience.

via io9

 
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Klingon-Language Rapper

Posted by John Farrier in Movies & SciFi, Music on October 16, 2009 at 8:42 am


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Klenginem is a German rapper who performs in the Klingon language, mostly modified Eminem songs. Here is his performance of “SuvwI’pu’ qan tu’lu’be”, which is known in English as “Without Me.”

Official Website via Popped Culture

 
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Klingon Night School

Posted by John Farrier in Funny, Movies & SciFi, Video Clips on February 10, 2009 at 7:15 pm

Klingon Nightschool

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A short film celebrating the wonderful gifts that (Klingon) teachers give to their students, and all of society as well. Directed by Gord McWatters, RT: 1 minute, 37 seconds.

Via Topless Robot

 
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Klingon Keyboard

Posted by John Farrier in Gadget, Movies & SciFi on January 14, 2009 at 8:59 pm

ta’ SoH neH chu’ Doch vaD lIj Duj? Well, you’re in luck! You can get your own Klingon language keyboard for only £43.99.

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