With the launch of Ultralingua's new translation software, a non-paid advisor for the company just revealed that he spoke both English and KLINGON to his son (now 15) for the first 3 years of his life. And then tries to claim he's "not a Trekkie".Reason # 1 to have kids: They're sometimes more useful than guinea pigs.
Personally, I think its kind of cool for this dad to do a little experiment with his son, but why Klingon instead of Italian or Spanish? Not sure what that particular bit was supposed to prove. But I bet the ESL teachers had their hands full with the little guy.
He probably didn't share well with others, either...
"How dare you steal my Tonka truck?! Hab SoSlI' Quch!"
I protest, I AM NOT A MERRY MAN.
ReplyDeleteBTW, that father is either awesome or horrible, I can't decide. I mean, what kind of father raises their children on Star Trek and Star Wars and obscure pop culture references and makes them memorize car logos and....oh.
Ok, and I looked up the article, and it got even creepier. It says he spoke ONLY Klingon to his kid for 3 years...
ReplyDeleteIt's "Sir! I protest. I am not a merry man." And yeah. Who does that?
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