Dad Spoke ONLY Klingon to Son for 3 Years

[Alidar Jarok]

Still, if he wanted to research how a constructed language could be learned naturally, he could have use Esperanto.

In a practical sense, it doesn't make a difference. I do realize that esperanto doesn't have the same connotations, though.

 

[Silanda]

It's so nice to see that Trekkers are so tolerant of other people's oddities. Sarcasm intended. Disappointment intended. I guess I expect more out of people whose love object preaches tolerance. Wrong again. I think I'm done here.

People having oddities is fine, people then trying to foist those oddities on to their children, potentially to the detriment of their development, is not.

 

[gastrof]

It's all well learning an artificial language (hell, I've learnt Esperanto) but what's the point if there are very few others that you can communicate with? I would have taught the kid something practical like Spanish, German or French.

But the kid did initially start to learn Klingon and speak it.

If he'd stayed with it, in a few years he'd be old enough to get a job at the Star Trek Experience, as a Klingon waiter in Quark's bar.

 

[gastrof]

...The only experiment I see here is whether or not some fictional language can somehow screw up his child's early development, which I'm glad it seems he didn't end up doing. It certainly wouldn't improve it, that's for sure...Like I said, this guy is lucky he didn't screw his kid up..

You're being silly.

Raising a kid with two languages at the same time is a fine thing to do, and can't affect the kid negatively at all. People do it all the time.

The fact one of the languages in this case was an invented one makes no difference. How in the world could it have hurt the kid, with his mother also raising him to speak English?

All that could have happened here, if not what did, would be you'd have a kid who from his earliest years could speak Klingon natively.

There's nothing wrong with that. It's just a unique thing.

Stop seeing monsters in every corner, especially ones that aren't even dark.

...This idiot got LUCKY. Had his experiment gone awry, how many of his supporters would be so tolerant? They would probably be the first to support his lynching.

Oh boy, here we go again.

See my reply to Praxius.

 

[plynch]

It's so nice to see that Trekkers are so tolerant of other people's oddities. Sarcasm intended. Disappointment intended. I guess I expect more out of people whose love object preaches tolerance. Wrong again. I think I'm done here.

Elvis is dead. Where is your tolerance? I guess I expect more out of people whose love object died of a drug overdose.

This idiot got LUCKY. Had his experiment gone awry, how many of his supporters would be so tolerant? They would probably be the first to support his lynching.

You prove my point. Thanks for being an obvious last straw. Sometimes the universe speaks clearly and this is one of those moments. Goodbye, BBS. It was sometimes fun. But too often contentious and mean. Be well, all.