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Originally posted by TSN:

"But, [Franna Hathaway] adds, 'There are some cases where we've had mental health patients where [Klingon] was all they would speak.'

"Jelusich says that in reality, no patient has yet tried to communicate in Klingon."

So, which is it?

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What I've seen reported is that a rep for Portland's mental health system said the were going to use their increased budget to hire translators to communicate with paitents that can't speak English "even if they're speaking Klingon".
Somebody (likely a reporter) mis-quoted him and ran the initial story that was picked up by news wire services.
Probably cost that rep his job too from all this bad press.

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Elvish, klingon, bocce

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• "The Klingon Dictionary" was first published in 1985.
• The first Klingon language camp occurred on Aug. 15 1993 in Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, it lasted 2 weeks.
• As of this publishing, they had translated the Bible, the Gospel and in early 1996 the Klingon Language Institute turned out 1,000 hard-bound copies of Hamlet.
• The Klingon Language Institute is based in Flourtown, Pennsylvania and has more than 1,000 members throughout 30 countries, including the U.K., Canada, Brazil and Australia.

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Originally posted by AndrewR:
BTW - it was Jimmy Doohan that invented Klingon (well sounds and ??symbols??) Okrand rather cleverly took what had been established as 'canon' in TMP and built a language out from that.

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The foundation of what Klingon character actors and fans say- and how they speak Klingon- is rooted, however, not in Okrand's linguistic inventions but in those of James Doohan. The original series actor...actually created the first lines of Klingon for TMP. Doohan thought it would be fun to create a dialogue which "sounded weird and otherworldly," and tape recorded his work. The tape was given to Mark Lenard...who...phonetically transcribed Doohan's 'otherworldly' dialogue for his role as a Klingon in the opening scenes of TMP. Miraculously, Lenard still had those transcripts a few years later when he was asked to play Sarek in STIII, for which Okrand was asked to create a true, working Klingon language.

Okrand wasn't aware of Doohan's involvement in the Klingon language for TMP. Okrand had simply watched the film, then had made his own phonetic transcriptions as the basis for his STIII assignment. The resulting language, which today is known as tlhIngan Hol (or "official Klingon" among fans), was derived from the influences of his studies of American Indian, Chinese and Southeast Asian languages. It was only after Okrand sent his Klingon dialogue to Hollywood that he encountered Lenard on the STIII set and was shown the actor's first set of transcripts. The two found that their interpretations of Doohan's words were very similar.

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Okrand later went on to obviously write the Klingon Dictionary and other various related things. He is, however, not fluent in it as-so-much-as being able to carry a conversation in it.

Also in the article, there is mention of a second, fan-driven Klingon language developed with its own followers and practitioners called klingonaase.

So yeah, what did we learn here? People in the MidWest need to get a life! Damn establishers of Klingon language camps and Institutes!!!

So despite being a MidWesterner myself, I don't feel so bad about being a modest closet Trek-fan or having my "Spock Rocks" window sticker on my car and being made fun of for it all by my dad, because it could be a lot worse: I could be one of those kind of Trek fans.

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