Father Teaches Son to Speak Klingon

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[ReezeGoingSenseless]

I`m only waiting for the first Dude to teach his kid elvish.

[saltruj]

How Young are theese Turks?

[Leedler240]

The CC is crap on this show lol

[Angdharagh]

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.

[Mikko2143658709]

kaman, that's OLSOME, its OLSOME

[BlenderHelixAlpha]

i hate the guy.

[phr4nk3rd00d13]

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...

[sonoNEKO]

@ReezeGoingSenseless you can't really do that...elvish isn't complete enough to use as a daily language

[thecam3l3on]

no1 speaks klingon? lol! it's an official language, even wikipedia had/has articles in klingon :))

[pedromartins]

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.

[myrddinistheshit]

klingon does not sound turkish at all