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Title: Klingon speakers Post by: raj on May 11, 2003, 11:16:48 AM Doin' some sunday morning websurfing, and this item pops up. Apparently there are some mentally ill folks who will only speak Klingon. Ya know, making any sort of comment would be just too damn easy:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/05/10/offbeat.klingon.interpreter/index.html "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." Title: Re: Klingon speakers Post by: Neville on May 11, 2003, 02:16:28 PM I once got this shareware or freeware Klingon Clock for Windows. You pushed the button and a voice would read the time in Klingon. Lots of fun.
Title: Re: Klingon speakers Post by: Ash on May 11, 2003, 04:21:01 PM I love Trek but not like that.
You're right. Those people seriously have a mental disorder! Post Edited (05-11-03 16:21) Title: Re: Klingon speakers Post by: Johnny Blister on May 12, 2003, 07:56:21 PM Hey...how do you say"science fiction"in Klingon?
Title: Re: Klingon speakers Post by: Brother Ragnarok on May 12, 2003, 08:06:35 PM The Enterprise crew should have had a telepathic translator device ala the TARDIS so all the monsters could speak English...
On a different note, I once had a conversation with a friend about how Star Trek would have been so much cooler had the Enterprise's warp engines been run by a stick shift transmission. Brother R Title: Re: Klingon speakers Post by: Johnny Blister on May 12, 2003, 08:09:20 PM Didn´t they had a translator in"Star Trek"?
Title: Re: Klingon speakers Post by: Ash on May 12, 2003, 08:14:41 PM Yes.
The Universal Translator. But it was for spoken words only, not telepathy. And by the way Brother R......HAHAHAHA!!!! The warp engines being run by a stick-shift! F**kin' hilarious!! That'd be scary as hell to be at the helm but what a rush! A person piloting it could make those revving noises with their throat as they went through the gears! HAHAHA!! Title: Re: Klingon speakers Post by: Fearless Freep on May 12, 2003, 09:27:56 PM I once had a conversation with a friend about how Star Trek would have been so much cooler had the Enterprise's warp engines been run by a stick shift transmission.
Close enouigh was Riker and the joystick in "Insurrection" ...but I swear Khan downshifted and slammed the throttle forward in "Wrath Of Khan" at one point Title: Re: Klingon speakers Post by: Johnny Blister on May 12, 2003, 09:36:16 PM WARING!WARNING!
Star Trek technobabble alarm activated! Title: Re: Klingon speakers Post by: trala-log on May 13, 2003, 02:29:06 AM its sad that people would have so little in their lives as to learn a make believe language
Title: Re: Klingon speakers Post by: Brother Ragnarok on May 13, 2003, 02:33:00 AM You mean like that guy who thought Esperanto was gonna be really cool?
Brother R Title: Re: Klingon speakers Post by: JohnL on May 14, 2003, 04:18:18 AM >Apparently there are some mentally ill folks who will only speak Klingon.
It's weird that I read this tonight. Earlier I saw a segment on the news about Klingon Karioke(sp?). >The Universal Translator. > >But it was for spoken words only, not telepathy. Did you ever notice that even when they were face to face with an alien, all you heard was English, not them speaking in their native language and then an English translation? Title: Re: Klingon speakers Post by: Ash on May 14, 2003, 05:15:21 AM Of course I wondered that but you have to suspend disbelief!
Title: Re: Klingon speakers Post by: wycked nick on May 15, 2003, 04:57:28 AM I just have three thing to say about it.SAD SAD SAD
Title: Re: Klingon speakers Post by: Johnny Blister on May 15, 2003, 01:04:12 PM QUA'PLA!
Title: Re: Klingon speakers Post by: spikesangel on May 15, 2003, 02:02:25 PM http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/klingon.asp
i knew a guy once who trained his dog to respond only to Klingon commands. Title: Re: Klingon speakers Post by: Johnny Blister on May 15, 2003, 02:10:37 PM What about the rabid J.R.R.Tolkien fans who only speak Elfish?
Title: Re: Klingon speakers Post by: wycked nick on May 15, 2003, 02:38:11 PM any one who actually learns klingon or elvish need to get out of there parents basement and get a f**king life
Title: Re: Klingon speakers Post by: JohnL on May 18, 2003, 06:43:06 PM I recall reading a news story about two people who bumped into each other, didn't speak either's language, but they both knew Klingon, so they were able to talk to each other.
Title: Re: Klingon speakers Post by: Fearless Freep on May 19, 2003, 10:58:17 AM oh, great. Esperanto failed as a universal language, so we get Klingon instead
Title: Re: Klingon speakers Post by: Johnny Blister on May 19, 2003, 06:54:21 PM How about the Vulcan language?
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