It's an inhuman language in that the creator deliberately broke a number of rules that real languages tend to follow and selected features that are quite rare, so it wouldn't have evolved naturally. The guy who made it was a linguist.
Secondly, I know a fair bit about Klingon as I have an interest in languages (particularly fictional ones), but Star Trek bores the shit of me.
Also, the study was on language acquisition. Results? Kid didn't learn Klingon; that's STILL A RESULT.
What? Unsubstantiated... Mainly based on Mongolian and Turkish? This guy is totally linguistically ignorant. Turkish is a very soft language, or at least it sounds fairly soft, first of all. Mongolian, not as harsh as he makes it seem, either. Totally unsubstantiated claim, that it's based on those languages. I can't find any sources that say that. And no one else speaks Klingon? There are more speakers of Klingon than there are speakers of Navajo... It's the most spoken fictional language...
I don't know why people keep commenting on things they know little about (including the guys in the video). Apart from a few exceptions, no one here has said anything remotely coherent in terms of linguistic theory, not even the most basic concepts and ideas. Studies of this kind (and their unfeasibility for ethical reasons) are one of the holy grails of language acquisition and linguistics in general: to assess the acquisition processes of unattested and/or deemed impossible languages.
Children gravitate towards the majority language they hear around them. It takes a conscious effort on the part of the parent to get the child to become an active native speaker of the minority language spoken in the family or just by one of the parents. The same goes for accents and dialects. Children don't necessarily speak like their parents. They will speak like their peers at school.
I have one question: Usually, you can't remember the first 3 years of your life. So, this kid understands Klingon like it's completely naturally, but he can't remember of any human speaking Klingon to him? That must be awesome!
@Austindude3954 Actually, there are extremely few who do; probably around thirty who can actually converse in it. Most just know Qapla' and petaQ (and most can't even spell'em).
Actually Cenk, the Klingon language was invented by non other than actor James Doohan for the movie Star Trek: The Motion Picture. To those who don't know, James Doohan played Scotty on Star Trek.
Children don't learn language simply from someone "speaking" to you -- or from hearing the language spoken. Learning to speak is an interactive process. You make a variety of sounds, like 'mu" and "pu" -- in the direction of your care givers and they go nuts and react -- "Oh, yes, that's me, "Ma! "Pa! Da!, Ya, No! " whatever it is.
It's that interactive reinforcement that brings children to a particular language, so unless there are Klingon words for ma, pa, cup and binkie you're in trouble.
what does he mean that you cant pick it up because no one in his near space speak klingon?, I have learned Mandarin when learning only 3 hours a week, and noone in my near space speaks mandarin except my mandarin teacher, and yet I speak it. so picking up klingon would not be hard even if they just learns it 2 or 3 hours each day. as Jimmynewbrand says, "Techniclayyy, every language is a made up language. and yes even English is a made up language.
Great that you are teaching an edjucated linguist how to do his job. He wouldn't happen to know more about klingon and other languages than two hobby journalists... douchebags...
@Kathara14 that's already happend and it worked perfectly.. Esperanto is probably the easiest language in the world, while Klingon is much more complex and has grammatical categories for things no other human language has, which makes it far more interesting
I think he means more in the sense that no one possibly in his family other than his dad would speak to him like that and everyone else of course in english.... I suppose.
i think that if the wife had spoken klingon also he would have picked it up. children brought up in america still learn their ancestral language (ex: chinese, korean, etc.) because their entire family uses it at home, but they also learn english because of their exposure to it from television and friends. in fact, my friends little sister only spoke chinese until she was about 3, so that was a huge pain for me who speaks such little chinese its pathetic... of course, i'm not chinese either
Calm down I have relatives who are Texans and we gave each other grief and black eyes in are younger days. So if you are wishing you could give me a punch in the nose for my little joke it's happened a few times....... over far worse comments than that.... So for my relatives who live in the lone star state GOD BLESS TEXAS..... The rest of you can kiss my ass!!!
It's stupid that he did it to see if he would pick up a 'non-human' language... Stupid guy.
I don't think you can really teach a child Klingon because it's an incomplete language. You can't say a lot of things that would apply to talking to a three year old.
I think Klingon is cool because when else can you participate in the 'creation' of a language? Keep at it sons and daughters of Kahless.
thats cool ass all hell to me. that kid is going to pick up faster then the kids watching Dora. if for some reason i meet the dad, he gets free beer for not letting his kid waste his brain.
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I actually hate these 2 people... they just criticize stuff cause' they don't have anything interesting to say, you know? and besides, the guy is a douche...... I've watch a couple of their videos and they just sit there and try to make transh-talk sound funny....It's NOT.
@jimmynewbrand You have to be more specific than just saying "made up". Some languages have evolved over the years, maybe millennia, while other languages have been constructed or "made up" like e.g. Esperanto. Saying that all languages are "made up" is not precise enough to describe languages, unless you are talking about languages invented by children.
@jimmynewbrand But no one sat down and said "I don't want to be just a Saxon anymore... what should we call this new language... I am now speaking in English"
There's a good reason the kid chosed to speak English over Klingon.
English as a language has evolved over millennia.This evolution occurred due to the preferences of the people speaking it, choosing certain words over others as well as how they are pronounced according to how good it sounds.
This evolution makes English a very pleasing language to both speak and listen to.
Compare that to the harsh, unevolved Klingon language and it is no wonder that English won in the end.
English is a made up language from many other languages with a strong foundation in Latin and Greek... I believe. The word sounds are not as important as the context with which they are spoken. Common prefixes and suffixes give added flexibility to the language in order to make up new words with meaning. Also I think the ability to pronounce certain word parts at a young age contributes to the overall usage of the language.
Mark Orkand made up the language and he is a linguist... I think.
@bigcomcast maybe in some areas, but texas has plenty of people that speak regular english. the real concentration of hick-speak is in the deep south ... like mississippi, alabama, tennessee, etc. trust me -- i'm from texas and i've visited the deep south. it's true.
@USAamericaUSA lol fuck you ... the guy has 25 thumbs up for a reason ... because lots of people know down south people dont speak english. they speak a more fucked up version of what used to be english.
@CTRTrichome right, the folks in Baaston and Neew Yaak really know how to speak "English'. While American call their language 'English' it is really 'American' ask anyone from Britain. Before you slam the south take a trip to Wisconsin or California. SOUTHERN WOMAN AND PROUD OF IT!!!!!
Klingon, like Elvish, is made up by humans. English, Turkish, Spanish, and Arameic was made up by humans too. Just like Xhoisan (long dead African tribal language). For a kid to pick up a "non-human language" he would have to live with ANIMALS. Man, this linguist has probably lost all credibility with the academic community.
Well Young Turks, it is a more interesting study than you might think. There's a common theory that there is an universal grammar, which is somehow genetically ingrained in our brains, which makes us able to learn (any) human language. Assuming that Klingon is not a human language, the child might not pickup on it. I doubt that they put so much thought in constructing Klingon that it's the same as an organically evolved language.
In other words, what you're stating is that Klingon is like a first generation Pidgin language - it has basic words needed for communication in specific contexts (marketplace, The Enterprise) but not enough of a solid, consistent grammatical structure or wide as a vocabulary as a fully developped language, no? But almost every kid in west Africa knows some variation of English lexifier pidgin, so why not Klingon (which IS a human language)?
You remind me of a kid I knew in college who would always reiterate everything that someone said for the sole purpose of letting everyone know he had both a better vocabulary and a better understanding of the subject at hand.
Except my "reiteration" of Juhmo was made to counter the implied argument (from all his posts put together) he was making, which stems from the assumption that UG is correct (it doesn't apply always) and that Klingon is not a human language (it is), not to re-state what he explicitly said. Also, I'm sure that I do have a better understanding on language acquisition and linguistics than most people on youtube, with the exception (perhaps) of those with doctoral credits or above in either topic.
Hey, if you can't perform social experiments on your kids, what's the point in having them?
Actually, I don't think it's abuse. It would be abuse if the kid was exclusively taught Klingon without English. But speaking Klingon to a baby isn't really abusive.
I agree, this is no more child abuse than raising your children bilingual. But since Klingon probably doesn't fit the universal grammar, children wouldn't pick up on it. Putting sounds from different human languages together doesn't make a human language per se, that's the point this guy was trying to prove. And it has no negative effect on your child, because it will still learn it's mother tongue, since the mother and other people spoke that to the child. I think this is an awesome experiment.
Actually the language is nonhuman in a sense. It's not intended that humans speak it, but that these 'Aliens' speak it. I basically came to that conclusion after reading it in my dictionary and looking it up online.
"3. not intended for consumption by humans: nonhuman products such as soaps and detergents. " :3
Lol yes, but the point is that this language was made for 'aliens'. Not humans. I think that is what confused them. This language is nonhuman, because according to Star Trek, it is spoken by aliens. This language is made up. We do not apply our logic to something that is intended to break the rules of our logic. It's like star wars. We do not look at the movie and go, "That is just a guy dressed in a jedi costume". We believe him to be a Jedi, or else the whole story falls apart.
While its true that Klingon was made up by people it is an in-human language, while Klingon is a mix of distinctive sounds and sometimes words from languages like Turkish and Mongolian the majority of the language is combined in a way that doesn't make sense to the human ear which may explain why his son did not pick it up. People who know and learn Klingon say that learning the language is almost entirely memorization and to speak it takes extreme focus on memorized lessons.
.. don't laugh .. the kid will probably become an engineer, and will pay his way through engineering school doing the Renaissance Fest every weekend at Midieval Days in Kissimmee. ..
The CC is crap on this show lol
Leedler240 2 weeks ago
What crap is this?
It's an inhuman language in that the creator deliberately broke a number of rules that real languages tend to follow and selected features that are quite rare, so it wouldn't have evolved naturally. The guy who made it was a linguist.
Secondly, I know a fair bit about Klingon as I have an interest in languages (particularly fictional ones), but Star Trek bores the shit of me.
Also, the study was on language acquisition. Results? Kid didn't learn Klingon; that's STILL A RESULT.
Angdharagh 2 months ago
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Young turks are so stupid...
TSmity2 2 months ago
kaman, that's OLSOME, its OLSOME
Mikko2143658709 3 months ago 2
i hate the guy.
BlenderHelixAlpha 5 months ago
What? Unsubstantiated... Mainly based on Mongolian and Turkish? This guy is totally linguistically ignorant. Turkish is a very soft language, or at least it sounds fairly soft, first of all. Mongolian, not as harsh as he makes it seem, either. Totally unsubstantiated claim, that it's based on those languages. I can't find any sources that say that. And no one else speaks Klingon? There are more speakers of Klingon than there are speakers of Navajo... It's the most spoken fictional language...
phr4nk3rd00d13 5 months ago
no1 speaks klingon? lol! it's an official language, even wikipedia had/has articles in klingon :))
thecam3l3on 6 months ago
I don't know why people keep commenting on things they know little about (including the guys in the video). Apart from a few exceptions, no one here has said anything remotely coherent in terms of linguistic theory, not even the most basic concepts and ideas. Studies of this kind (and their unfeasibility for ethical reasons) are one of the holy grails of language acquisition and linguistics in general: to assess the acquisition processes of unattested and/or deemed impossible languages.
pedromartins 6 months ago
klingon does not sound turkish at all
myrddinistheshit 6 months ago
What is most amazing with this story is that a guy that speeks Klingon managed to impregnate a woman. ;-)
AngeCord 6 months ago 3
Children gravitate towards the majority language they hear around them. It takes a conscious effort on the part of the parent to get the child to become an active native speaker of the minority language spoken in the family or just by one of the parents. The same goes for accents and dialects. Children don't necessarily speak like their parents. They will speak like their peers at school.
morvil73 7 months ago
thats so super awesome :D im not a Star Trek fan but thats just awsome xD
KevboardGames 7 months ago
I have one question: Usually, you can't remember the first 3 years of your life. So, this kid understands Klingon like it's completely naturally, but he can't remember of any human speaking Klingon to him? That must be awesome!
Planckstein 7 months ago
Cenk, you got a qIrq HoD nIvnav at home?! SRSLY? xD
eigensinn83 7 months ago
Mongolian - bwahahahaa ^_^
For once: qapHa', Cenk...
eigensinn83 7 months ago
when my buttons are pushed enough, i have the anger of a klingon lol
invisiblejaguar1 7 months ago
And alot of Trekkers DO speak Klingon
Austindude3954 8 months ago
@Austindude3954 Actually, there are extremely few who do; probably around thirty who can actually converse in it. Most just know Qapla' and petaQ (and most can't even spell'em).
tesseraktik 7 months ago
All languages were made up -_-
Austindude3954 8 months ago
And there are more of us that speak Klingon than you are aware of P'tak, Maj to the father
mearp69 8 months ago
The young turks are d bags always ripping on everything, why not let people do what they want without critisism
Ryan0556 8 months ago 2
Actually Cenk, the Klingon language was invented by non other than actor James Doohan for the movie Star Trek: The Motion Picture. To those who don't know, James Doohan played Scotty on Star Trek.
ChrisCa1601 8 months ago
If he watches enough Star Trek, then he may just pick up Klingon from watching TV
loveofphysics 9 months ago
Children don't learn language simply from someone "speaking" to you -- or from hearing the language spoken. Learning to speak is an interactive process. You make a variety of sounds, like 'mu" and "pu" -- in the direction of your care givers and they go nuts and react -- "Oh, yes, that's me, "Ma! "Pa! Da!, Ya, No! " whatever it is.
It's that interactive reinforcement that brings children to a particular language, so unless there are Klingon words for ma, pa, cup and binkie you're in trouble.
prodprod 9 months ago
QALPA'
youpooper1234567890 9 months ago
what does he mean that you cant pick it up because no one in his near space speak klingon?, I have learned Mandarin when learning only 3 hours a week, and noone in my near space speaks mandarin except my mandarin teacher, and yet I speak it. so picking up klingon would not be hard even if they just learns it 2 or 3 hours each day. as Jimmynewbrand says, "Techniclayyy, every language is a made up language. and yes even English is a made up language.
1Gabrielsson1 10 months ago
the dad has no life
070000591 10 months ago 2
I`m only waiting for the first Dude to teach his kid elvish.
ReezeGoingSenseless 11 months ago 22
@ReezeGoingSenseless YES
merrimankaylynn 8 months ago
@ReezeGoingSenseless you can't really do that...elvish isn't complete enough to use as a daily language
sonoNEKO 6 months ago
I loled at "fork spoon and knife" because it did sound harsh.... and it was just kitchen ware...... LOLOLOLOL
bbphnix 11 months ago
i find this dude's behaviour a little trollish..i'm quite sure he's a little smarter than he looks but he keeps trollin everytime...
mamutercan 11 months ago
MOST STUPID RETARDED CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE. Retarded people, please don't get offended for being compared with this mentally challenged.
str8out 11 months ago
I wanna speak klingon !
0637085966 1 year ago 3
hlja! chA bacH! Kapla`! pIv! Qu` Qel.
KyroKaTaK 10 months ago
@0637085966
There are colleges where you can learn Klingon and LotR Elvish. :)
FireChildSlytherin5 10 months ago 3
It's funny how many of the comments are from angry and confused people.
Fretslayer 1 year ago
Who the fuck are you retards.!
peckerglynn 1 year ago
Live long and prosper Indeed
alexander33345 1 year ago
Great that you are teaching an edjucated linguist how to do his job. He wouldn't happen to know more about klingon and other languages than two hobby journalists... douchebags...
9Robin1 1 year ago
@9Robin1 He could have thought his kids Esperanto if he wanted to study artificial language acquisition.
Kathara14 7 months ago
@Kathara14 that's already happend and it worked perfectly.. Esperanto is probably the easiest language in the world, while Klingon is much more complex and has grammatical categories for things no other human language has, which makes it far more interesting
Planckstein 7 months ago
@Planckstein Oo, I seriously doubt it. The complexity of some languages blows one's mind.
Kathara14 7 months ago
naDevvo' yIghoS
jayandclemstrikeback 1 year ago
I lol'd at fork, spoon and knife.
RandomTask3000 1 year ago
Go ***** Your Self You Fat Targ Everyone Speaks Klingon! Make My ANGRY!!!!!
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
xxkyros 1 year ago
man this guys a douche bag about everything!
bboyz1242 1 year ago
tlhIngan Hol vIjatlhlaH
Forlo12345 1 year ago
what is this guy talking about "no one speaks klingon" I speak klingon, am i no one?
MedicusQui1161 1 year ago 3
@MedicusQui1161
I think he means more in the sense that no one possibly in his family other than his dad would speak to him like that and everyone else of course in english.... I suppose.
kirabook 1 year ago
@MedicusQui1161 You have earned my respect sir
alexander33345 1 year ago
How Young are theese Turks?
saltruj 1 year ago 6
This is insanely boring
fluff125 1 year ago
here is video about how Marc Okrand came up with the klingon language
watch?v=Ph77eTMZIhs
Steve2323ZX 1 year ago
that is why star wars has 7 academy awwards 7 oscars !!!!!!!!!!!!!
mendezfocus 1 year ago
wtf
danyandmarc 1 year ago
THIS IS RETARDED
hobbobber 1 year ago
Everyone language is made up...but it seems to work...so what ever.
PearceCTV 1 year ago
i think that if the wife had spoken klingon also he would have picked it up. children brought up in america still learn their ancestral language (ex: chinese, korean, etc.) because their entire family uses it at home, but they also learn english because of their exposure to it from television and friends. in fact, my friends little sister only spoke chinese until she was about 3, so that was a huge pain for me who speaks such little chinese its pathetic... of course, i'm not chinese either
Milkpaw 1 year ago
I googled klingon and bursted into a fit of laughter
cassandre2468 1 year ago
ill teach my kid klingon.... thats wat my hubby and i speak at home anyway so y not??
MsGeekchick 1 year ago
The real problem is that his son wasn't Klingon.
AlcoholLevel 1 year ago 3
Years ago I saw in a bookstore , an English Klingon translater dictionary.
rick6393 1 year ago 3
i wish my dad did that to me :\
scotlandcow 1 year ago
People only take the piss out of Star Trek because it's the most popular TV show ever.
leeham991 1 year ago
sounds awesome!!! :D
tanyashow111 1 year ago
he said thats pawsome thats pawsome LOL
inbinsabol 1 year ago
star trek?!
plaines 1 year ago
Calm down I have relatives who are Texans and we gave each other grief and black eyes in are younger days. So if you are wishing you could give me a punch in the nose for my little joke it's happened a few times....... over far worse comments than that.... So for my relatives who live in the lone star state GOD BLESS TEXAS..... The rest of you can kiss my ass!!!
bigcomcast 1 year ago
That's fucking wonderful. I want to grow up learning Klingon.
SidOfOdin 1 year ago 41
It's stupid that he did it to see if he would pick up a 'non-human' language... Stupid guy.
I don't think you can really teach a child Klingon because it's an incomplete language. You can't say a lot of things that would apply to talking to a three year old.
I think Klingon is cool because when else can you participate in the 'creation' of a language? Keep at it sons and daughters of Kahless.
CetiAlphaVI 1 year ago
all language's are made up
fairyheli2 1 year ago
That's fucking sweet. Haha!
DavidBoettger 1 year ago
3:46 long ??
Just to say no more than the title itself ??
Loss of time.
Vagextrol 1 year ago
oh she likes those little comments about her boobs huh, cuz I see you wear some very decent dress :D
sebstclair 1 year ago
NUQ DAQ YUJ DA'POL
jarheadwithm16 1 year ago
QUPLAH!!!!
TheMask180 1 year ago
i wanna learn to speak klingon
TheMask180 1 year ago
thats cool ass all hell to me. that kid is going to pick up faster then the kids watching Dora. if for some reason i meet the dad, he gets free beer for not letting his kid waste his brain.
HallBoss3 1 year ago
this shit is funny
Pachak shatal?
stoneybologni89 2 years ago
na'vi rules !!! go for it .. be the bond !!
1darkrex1 2 years ago
FUCK THE KLINGON'S! NA'VI FTW!
Kalahridudex 2 years ago
KAPLA.
meatisdeliciouse 2 years ago 2
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I actually hate these 2 people... they just criticize stuff cause' they don't have anything interesting to say, you know? and besides, the guy is a douche...... I've watch a couple of their videos and they just sit there and try to make transh-talk sound funny....It's NOT.
silentsback 2 years ago
i think they r kinda funy
isidbigi 2 years ago 3
silentsback,
I think that a good number of the regular TYT audience watch it just to look at Anna's chest.
SinnFein4ever 1 year ago
Hab SoSlI' Quch!
Kcure57 2 years ago
What a dumbass father. Children learn languages by relating them to images. Not just by shouting words at them.
He was just a dork.
SUSHiiification 2 years ago
Whatever anna. Computers are cool now, give it 5 years and geek will be top sheek while your begging to slob my knob
WE ARE STILL HERE!!!
kgonepostl 2 years ago 3
Hey you would make a nice klingon!
Kaplah
lejonicom 2 years ago
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armonthereaper 2 years ago
obvi its "live long and prosper" fuckers lucky i dont kick his ass not knowing that shit. Star Trek FTW!!!
Tri756 2 years ago 4
Technically, every language is a made up language
jimmynewbrand 2 years ago 104
@jimmynewbrand You have to be more specific than just saying "made up". Some languages have evolved over the years, maybe millennia, while other languages have been constructed or "made up" like e.g. Esperanto. Saying that all languages are "made up" is not precise enough to describe languages, unless you are talking about languages invented by children.
tkrokli 1 year ago
@jimmynewbrand
Not really ;-)
grozde 1 year ago
@jimmynewbrand Yeah, but natural differences are pretty hard to swallow. lol
h2jazz5 1 year ago
@jimmynewbrand well he says its a language derived from aliens, klingon is made up by humans (unless they are assimilated to the borg collective)
evilbritta 1 year ago
@jimmynewbrand But no one sat down and said "I don't want to be just a Saxon anymore... what should we call this new language... I am now speaking in English"
arachnophile01 1 year ago
@jimmynewbrand yep
chakotay24 1 year ago
Beam me up Scotty!
funnyguytoo 2 years ago 2
I had a friend in college that spoke Klingon.
Panchoroy 2 years ago 3
poor boy going and speak klingon and get his ass whoop
samara2306 2 years ago
fucking sick shit
Steadno 2 years ago
cap kirk awayyyy
owch damn it spock your ears hit my eye
constintean 2 years ago
never mind
sequoyahchiefs 2 years ago
um can any one explain wtf is klingon
sequoyahchiefs 2 years ago
Klingon is a language spoken by a race of people from outer space that are featured in Star Trek.
WeOneNow 2 years ago
There's a good reason the kid chosed to speak English over Klingon.
English as a language has evolved over millennia.This evolution occurred due to the preferences of the people speaking it, choosing certain words over others as well as how they are pronounced according to how good it sounds.
This evolution makes English a very pleasing language to both speak and listen to.
Compare that to the harsh, unevolved Klingon language and it is no wonder that English won in the end.
uclmjohnson 2 years ago
English is a made up language from many other languages with a strong foundation in Latin and Greek... I believe. The word sounds are not as important as the context with which they are spoken. Common prefixes and suffixes give added flexibility to the language in order to make up new words with meaning. Also I think the ability to pronounce certain word parts at a young age contributes to the overall usage of the language.
Mark Orkand made up the language and he is a linguist... I think.
:P
Joxman2k 2 years ago 3
all languages are made up btw :P
hakar 2 years ago 4
no they aren't. they've developed. people didn't come together to decide on how they should talk.
coosoorlog 2 years ago
latin, french, greek, and spanish, to be exact
Omega231984 2 years ago
I love that your name incorporates the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet :)
I thought French and Spanish had their roots in Roman?
I just googled romantic languages and they have their roots in Latin which was the language of Rome... I didn't know that.
:P
Joxman2k 2 years ago
Disagree.
If101284 2 years ago
what a waster of time.......
Why didn't he teach him French or Spanish or something useful
1Vella 2 years ago
If his mother spoke Klingon he would speak Klingon. People learn their mother's tongue.
schmokay 2 years ago
srpski sounds like a harsh lanuage
cao cao ja volim korov
PoThEaD7861 2 years ago
I think Cenk would fit in the Riker outfit better.
nowhereboy 2 years ago
want to here a nonhuman language spend a week in texas.
bigcomcast 2 years ago 69
@bigcomcast maybe in some areas, but texas has plenty of people that speak regular english. the real concentration of hick-speak is in the deep south ... like mississippi, alabama, tennessee, etc. trust me -- i'm from texas and i've visited the deep south. it's true.
garrettw87 1 year ago
@bigcomcast Uh ya'll best learn how to spell HEAR 'fore you make fun o texans son! Hell, wetbacks write better than you!
chillichomper 1 year ago
@bigcomcast oh fuck you you should probably learn how to spell before you start hating on others language. not everyone in texas has a hick accent.
ummmmwtf 1 year ago
@bigcomcast FUCK YOU
bigruben96 1 year ago
@bigcomcast i meant to "plus" that
nonsufficentfunds 1 year ago
@bigcomcast Fuck YOU !!! Texas RULES !! stupid yankee....
USAamericaUSA 1 year ago
@USAamericaUSA I am an injun pole smoker I do not think YANKEE'S claim me cocksucker.
bigcomcast 1 year ago
@USAamericaUSA lol fuck you ... the guy has 25 thumbs up for a reason ... because lots of people know down south people dont speak english. they speak a more fucked up version of what used to be english.
CTRTrichome 1 year ago
@CTRTrichome right, the folks in Baaston and Neew Yaak really know how to speak "English'. While American call their language 'English' it is really 'American' ask anyone from Britain. Before you slam the south take a trip to Wisconsin or California. SOUTHERN WOMAN AND PROUD OF IT!!!!!
donalee56 1 year ago
@USAamericaUSA hahahaha id love to hear you say that in non human texasian
evilbritta 1 year ago
Cenk needs to let Anna talk more.
FramblyNeji 2 years ago 3
"Live long an Prosper" ... You're DONE Cenk. lol.
banonKING 2 years ago
yes, so you better wear the star trek outfit next time! you REALLY screwed up!
akesling 2 years ago
Uniform not costume lol
darkenlight22 2 years ago
Go the whole hog, fill him full of steroids , stick a Danish on his forehead, grow his hair and get him a WWE deal.
BigMrFirebird 2 years ago
Klingon, like Elvish, is made up by humans. English, Turkish, Spanish, and Arameic was made up by humans too. Just like Xhoisan (long dead African tribal language). For a kid to pick up a "non-human language" he would have to live with ANIMALS. Man, this linguist has probably lost all credibility with the academic community.
DrQuijano 2 years ago
it's the craziest study of all time . OF ALL TIME!
momojabada 2 years ago
even Esperantu would have made more sense than Klingon. But that experiment has already been done. Supposedly successfully.
oalemdemadrid 2 years ago
Yes, there are plenty of native Esperanto speakers, including George Soros if you can believe that.
AtomikNY 2 years ago
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wow, yet another one of those who gives a shit tyt videos, they have like three good ones out of 100 anymore. bleh
odom602 2 years ago
how dare you not like these vids. can't you see from all the thumbs down that you should like them? LIKE THEM.
leloodallasmultipass 2 years ago
Well Young Turks, it is a more interesting study than you might think. There's a common theory that there is an universal grammar, which is somehow genetically ingrained in our brains, which makes us able to learn (any) human language. Assuming that Klingon is not a human language, the child might not pickup on it. I doubt that they put so much thought in constructing Klingon that it's the same as an organically evolved language.
juhmoeduhr 2 years ago
In other words, what you're stating is that Klingon is like a first generation Pidgin language - it has basic words needed for communication in specific contexts (marketplace, The Enterprise) but not enough of a solid, consistent grammatical structure or wide as a vocabulary as a fully developped language, no? But almost every kid in west Africa knows some variation of English lexifier pidgin, so why not Klingon (which IS a human language)?
DrQuijano 2 years ago
You remind me of a kid I knew in college who would always reiterate everything that someone said for the sole purpose of letting everyone know he had both a better vocabulary and a better understanding of the subject at hand.
leloodallasmultipass 2 years ago
Except my "reiteration" of Juhmo was made to counter the implied argument (from all his posts put together) he was making, which stems from the assumption that UG is correct (it doesn't apply always) and that Klingon is not a human language (it is), not to re-state what he explicitly said. Also, I'm sure that I do have a better understanding on language acquisition and linguistics than most people on youtube, with the exception (perhaps) of those with doctoral credits or above in either topic.
DrQuijano 2 years ago
Implied arguments reside mostly in the minds of those who perceive them.
You may not know the level of education of those around you unless they are clever enough to prefix their usernames with their titles.
The guy I knew in college was also very smart and learned.
leloodallasmultipass 2 years ago
Its super fucking sweet tough.. :D
MrBlamemeforit 2 years ago
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This should be considered child abuse.
MechaRadio 2 years ago
@MechaRadio That's a rather stupid comment.
Anidem9 2 years ago
Hey, if you can't perform social experiments on your kids, what's the point in having them?
Actually, I don't think it's abuse. It would be abuse if the kid was exclusively taught Klingon without English. But speaking Klingon to a baby isn't really abusive.
faething 2 years ago
I agree, this is no more child abuse than raising your children bilingual. But since Klingon probably doesn't fit the universal grammar, children wouldn't pick up on it. Putting sounds from different human languages together doesn't make a human language per se, that's the point this guy was trying to prove. And it has no negative effect on your child, because it will still learn it's mother tongue, since the mother and other people spoke that to the child. I think this is an awesome experiment.
juhmoeduhr 2 years ago
Except that ethical laws on research state that one can't do experiments on their own kids. It sucks, I know, but that's research ethics.
DrQuijano 2 years ago
I C WAT U DID THAR CENK!! Nice pun, guy! :D
Stonehawk 2 years ago
Actually the language is nonhuman in a sense. It's not intended that humans speak it, but that these 'Aliens' speak it. I basically came to that conclusion after reading it in my dictionary and looking it up online.
"3. not intended for consumption by humans: nonhuman products such as soaps and detergents. " :3
But still very interesting.
Lukie99 2 years ago
in fantasy land its spoken by aliens.But the bottom line its humans dressed as aliens. :p
chatoXvato 2 years ago
Lol yes, but the point is that this language was made for 'aliens'. Not humans. I think that is what confused them. This language is nonhuman, because according to Star Trek, it is spoken by aliens. This language is made up. We do not apply our logic to something that is intended to break the rules of our logic. It's like star wars. We do not look at the movie and go, "That is just a guy dressed in a jedi costume". We believe him to be a Jedi, or else the whole story falls apart.
Lukie99 2 years ago
Please Cenk!
SkreetGil 2 years ago
Cenk, could you wear the Captain Kirk outfit? Just for once? Please?
coldice76stromberg 2 years ago
I'm going to teach my kids Elvish then.
twins1729 2 years ago
Weak sauce, I love that!
AlexJordan09 2 years ago
Haha, I love the irony in your name.
Oh, you're retarded.
TsShakezoola 2 years ago
Ana's so young and a bit clueless at times, who wouldn't get the pun Cenk made at the beggining.
jerman2003 2 years ago
I'm gonna learn my daughter Chinese.
MrObama 2 years ago
you learn her good.
jerman2003 2 years ago
@SmartestManAaive your a peice of shit, racist fuck. stay off youtube and hell do us a favor and walk onto a busy highway.
lastwill11 2 years ago 3
@lastwill11 he basically uses youtube soely to say things like that. click on that link of his name. its amazing.
eeedel 2 years ago
Ana is HOT!
MarFamore 2 years ago
While its true that Klingon was made up by people it is an in-human language, while Klingon is a mix of distinctive sounds and sometimes words from languages like Turkish and Mongolian the majority of the language is combined in a way that doesn't make sense to the human ear which may explain why his son did not pick it up. People who know and learn Klingon say that learning the language is almost entirely memorization and to speak it takes extreme focus on memorized lessons.
mrhistory112890 2 years ago
The benefit, his son will never have to work hard to pick up ladies;-)
Baldmelon 2 years ago
This is why TYT should stay out of politics.
hoboX10 2 years ago
There are no surprises in this world.
menonthemovemovie 2 years ago
Wasn't there something like this in Daddy Daycare?
scribe67 2 years ago
Shoulda taught him Elvish instead...
GoombacC 2 years ago 5
LOL! 8^)
WASSANAMEFILMS 2 years ago
I wonder what a Klingon accent would sound like...
Dentarthurdent54 2 years ago
i wish my dad would speak to me in klingon. all he does is drink -_-
SatomiCanineWarrior 2 years ago 3
haha, win
refink33 2 years ago
Why not?
Worf is badass!!
CapedCrusader91 2 years ago
"You have no honor."
Guernicaman 2 years ago
.. don't laugh .. the kid will probably become an engineer, and will pay his way through engineering school doing the Renaissance Fest every weekend at Midieval Days in Kissimmee. ..
milkgodnl 2 years ago
its nice that he's a father who at least cares about his son, but learning a real language would have been way more useful.
chefawkes 2 years ago 2