Last night while the collection of friends was over, I overheard this conversation from the basement:"Klingon is not a 'real language'."
"Yes it is, it follows conventional language structure and there's a big enough vocabulary..."
"Yes, but you're forgetting one minor thing: KLINGONS DON'T EXIST."
To my husband's credit, he was the one with the Klingons Don't Exist argument, but that means someone down there had taken the counterpoint... And that just makes me sad.
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March 6, 2007 at 9:33 AM
I asked my sister-in-law (Becky), who is a linguist, and she said that Klingon IS a language. She said that there are enough geeks out there who speak it that they have to consider it a language. The difference, she says, is that unlike most other languages, Klingon is an artificial language (like Esperanto).
March 6, 2007 at 10:05 AM
Somehow, that makes me sadder.