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Why Yes, I Do Speak Klingon

Friday, May 22, 2009

Somehow the new Star Trek movie is managing to burn up the box office without a peep of Klingon -- the made-up language of villainous space warriors. The linguist Arika Okrent is a certified Klingon speaker. In her new book In the Land of Invented Languages, she describes the lure of Klingon and why Earthlings have picked it up.

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Arika Okrent

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James Harrison from NYC

Kurt: In talking about your mother's subscription to an Esperanto magazine, did I hear you say "...thinking that me and my brothers..."? One of the "Comment Guidelines" to your show admonishes commenters to use proper grammar, so...

May. 23 2009 11:04 AM
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