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.
Qapla'! Hospital seeks Klingon speaker
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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!
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!
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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)
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