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Posted: **Sat May 10, 2003 10:20 pm**

Qapla'! Hospital seeks Klingon speaker

Saturday, May 10, 2003

Associated Press

PORTLAND, Oregon -- 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.

Posted: **Sat May 10, 2003 10:28 pm**

Haha.. that's great.

The cool thing about it is.. that Klingon has been accepted as a real language now. It's got it's own grammar, syntax, and all the stuff they mentioned.

They even have a klingon writing system.. here:
http://www.kli.org/tlh/pIqaD.html

It's the alphabet!

Posted: **Sat May 10, 2003 11:55 pm**

...has Elvish (Tolkien-esque) been considered an offical language?

Posted: **Sun May 11, 2003 6:49 am**

DADINK13 wrote:...has Elvish (Tolkien-esque) been considered an offical language?

Ummm.. no.

Because elvish doesnt have grammar, sytnax structure.. or it's own alphabet...and tutorials all over the net to help you speak it!
(and Klingon does)

Posted: **Sun May 11, 2003 7:41 am**

Actually, I disagree. I believe Elvish may be even more well-developed than Klingon, it's just not documented.

Posted: **Sun May 11, 2003 12:18 pm**

Any one have a link to at least a couple words translated from English to Klingon? I guess I need to go ask the Comic Book Guy in Springfield.

Posted: **Sun May 11, 2003 4:22 pm**

PhaseDMA wrote:Any one have a link to at least a couple words translated from English to Klingon? I guess I need to go ask the Comic Book Guy in Springfield.

here.. http://kli.org -- it's the most official Klingon Website on the net for learning their language.. part of the Klingon Institute for Higher Learning.

(The site loads really really slow though, just be patient)

As for the words.. go here: http://www.kli.org/tlh/phrases.html

That's the page with the most commonly used Klingon words.
There's even a page that has audio voices to help you pronouce them correctly. (it uses the sound format .AU)

Posted: **Sun May 11, 2003 4:36 pm**

What the .... is .au??

Thanks for the site

Posted: **Sun May 11, 2003 4:48 pm**

PhaseDMA wrote:What the .... is .au??

Thanks for the site

It's a file format developed by Sun Microsystems.
It's mostly a Unix / Linux format.. but has migrated to Windows...and Quicktime is about the only player I know that has the option to use it.

Posted: **Sun May 11, 2003 4:55 pm**

i had a CD that was a klingon language teacher.... ya know,.... lesson type thing.

it was a serious CD.... lol, it was pretty cool, but i never bothered to learn it.... i really shouold have though.... lol.... get better job oppertunities aparently