Klingon
Fictional Character
Linguist reveals: I only spoke in Klingon to my son for three years...PM on 21st November 2009 Linguist: Dr d'Armond Speers denies he is a Star Trek enthusiast A linguist has revealed he talked only in Klingon to his son for the first three years of his life to find out if he could learn to speak the... In this article: Klingon, Star Trek, Spock, Leonard Nimoy, and Minnesota |
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L.A. Times - Entertainment News | November 20, 2009
USC professor creates an entire alien language for 'Avatar'
...analysis using data from Klingon. When I started working on this, though, I deliberately did not look at Klingon so I wouldn't be unconsciously influenced by it." Frommer's fondest wish is that the language takes off and that fans of the...
In this article: James Cameron, Avatar, USC, Ubisoft, Zoe Saldana, Air Force One, and E mail
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The Sun | November 20, 2009
Dad spoke to son in Klingon
THINKING of teaching your Next Generation how to speak Klingon? Here are some words and phrases that might be useful to toddlers: laH jIH ghaj 'op sweets: Can I have sweets? He said: "He was definitely starting to learn it. When Alec...
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Boing Boing | November 20, 2009
A Klingon Christmas Carol
Can three ghosts help him to become the true warrior he ought to be in time to save Tiny Tim from a horrible fate? Performed in the Original Klingon with English Supertitles, and narrative analysis from The Vulcan Institute of Cultural...
In this article: Tiny Tim, Boing Boing, Taser, Minneapolis, Soy sauce, Miso soup, Tofu, and Trademark
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Marginal Revolution | November 20, 2009
Assorted links, second dose
...really more like bring the child up bilingually. But still, I don't like it. I'll happily defer to an alpha-geek on this, but doesn't Klingon lack a word for 'love'? Posted by: Justin Martyr at Nov 20, 2009 2:07:25 PM 2. PK is such a...
In this article: Paul Krugman and France
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New York Post | November 20, 2009
Damn it, Dad, I'm a baby, not a Klingon!
...AM, November 20, 2009 A Minnesota dad has one-upped all the parents who swear by the "My Baby Can Read" tapes -- his son can speak Klingon. Linguist d'Armond Speers said that during the first 3½ years of his son Alexander's life, he spoke...
In this article: Minnesota Daily, Star Trek, and Minnesota
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Crave: The gadget blog | November 19, 2009
The dad who only talked to his son in Klingon
...30-month-old son, Alec. He even presented a recording of little Alec singing the opening bars of the Klingon Imperial Anthem. Will Klingon still be the language of our future? The story has this week been updated with some extraordinary...
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Fox News | November 19, 2009
Man Spoke Klingon to Son for Three Years
And the Klingon experiment with his son? The boy is now in high school and doesn't speak a word of Klingon, reported Minnesota Daily . The Klingon language has its own institute and literary works like William Shakespeare's Hamlet and...
In this article: Minnesota Daily, Star Trek, Hamlet, William Shakespeare, Iphone, and YouTube
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Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide | November 18, 2009
Man Spoke Only Klingon to His Son for Three Years [Star Trek]
d'Armond Speers isn't really a huge Star Trek fan. The reason he spoke only in Klingon during his son's first three years of life was to learn about the language acquisition process. Yeah, sure. What a petaQ. Yes, I think That Speers is...
In this article: Star Trek
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Neatorama | November 18, 2009
Human Father Speaks Only Klingon To His Young Son for Three Years
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...
In this article: Human, Minnesota Daily, and Minnesota
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Klingon as a First Language
..."social experiments", a Minnesota father claims he put his computational linguistics Ph. D. to good use by speaking Klingon--and only Klingon--to his baby. Yes, for the first three years of its life, this kid was subjected to in-real-life...
In this article: Smurfs, Suicide, Trademark, God Almighty, Creative Commons License, CBC News, Boing Boing, YouTube, and Kool Keith
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Klingons (Klingon: tlhIngan, ) are a warrior race in the fictional Star Trek universe. They are recurring villains in the 1960s television show Star Trek: The Original Series, and have appeared in all five spin-off series and seven feature films. Initially intended to be swarthy antagonists for the crew of the USS Enterprise, the Klingons ended up a close ally of humanity and the United Federation of Planets in later television series.
As originally developed by screenwriter Gene L. Coon, Klingons were darkly colored humanoids with little honor, intended as an allegory to the then-current Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. With a greatly expanded budget for makeup and effects, the Klingons were completely redesigned in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), gaining ridged foreheads that created a continuity error not explained by canon until 2005. In later films and the spin-off series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the militaristic traits of the Klingons were bolstered by an increased sense of honor and strict warrior code.
Among the elements created for the revised Klingons was a complete language, developed by Marc Okrand off gibberish suggested by actor James Doohan. Since its appearance, Klingon became the first fictional language to break into popular culture; the works of William Shakespeare and even the Bible have been translated into the guttural language. Several tutorials and dictionaries have been published and according to Guinness World Records, Klingon is the most popular fictional language by number of speakers.
- Name:
- Klingons
- First appearance:
- "Errand of Mercy" (1967)
- Created By:
- Gene L. Coon
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