Comments on: Man Only Spoke Klingon To Son For Three Years

By: Newt

Newt — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:15:22 +0000

“Star Trek only recently became actually cool, with the new release of the prequel. Before it was always borderline entertaining at best…”
Yeah just borderline entertainment that’s been around for over 40 years, spawned five TV series, a Saturday morning cartoon series, eleven major motion pictures (so far) countless books, comic books, magazines, video games and board games. Gee, just think what full blown real entertainment would do.

By: Brian Barker

Brian Barker — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:15:04 +0000

Klingon is difficult, but Esperanto is worldwide. And easy, of course :)

As in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2LPVcsL2k0

By: Mark Lorenz

Mark Lorenz — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:54:10 +0000

Yes, a two-hundred word article is really worth getting huffy about.

You win at life.

By: Carol

Carol — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:42:44 +0000

I have an advantage over Mark Lorenz: I know Dr. Speers, his wife, and his son. They all speak English. The son was never spoken to “only” in Klingon when a toddler. A misplaced modifier can raise pseudo-ethical questions when one doesn’t know the facts, nor English grammar well enough, nor possess the intellectual curiousity to ask for an interview or fact check before offering up condemnations. This kind of sloppy posting that has its information all screwed up is what’s wrong with blogging versus actual reporting.

By: Bill Chapman

Bill Chapman — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:47:12 +0000

If this man really had to teach a contructed language to his son. At least Esperanto can be used for international communication

By: nick

nick — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:10:10 +0000

Age three and he was only “starting to learn it”? Dear lord I hope the mom at least had the proper sense to teach her kid how to communicate. There was a mom, right?