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Erg nahka bangol orsh.
Posted by: nannie | November 19, 2009 at 01:41 PM
My parents spoke only West Virginian to me for the first several years of my life, and really, that's sort of like Klingon...
Posted by: Scott | November 19, 2009 at 01:51 PM
UPDATE:
Mr. Speers answers in his own defense:
Posted by: catmanmax | November 19, 2009 at 02:02 PM
NOT a cunning linguist.
Posted by: bonmot | November 19, 2009 at 02:20 PM
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
No, but it makes my mouth water.
Posted by: bonmot | November 19, 2009 at 02:22 PM
Considering that the kid is now 15, was not exposed to Klingon exclusively those first three years, and the picture is not even a picture of the father, what exactly is the point of the article? To humiliate the father, and worse, the kid?
Posted by: Inquiring Mind | November 19, 2009 at 02:57 PM
Answer to Inquiring Mind:
YES.
Posted by: Punkin | November 19, 2009 at 03:08 PM
And what's more, IM, we WANT to humiliate a man who would experiment on his own child.
Posted by: Diva | November 19, 2009 at 03:46 PM
You learn your environment. I know of a guy who didn't find out until he was ten that his name wasn't "Dammit!". That was all his father called him. "Dammit!, come here!" Even his friends thought his name was "Dammit!"
Justice dictates that these fathers learn from the experience of being dropped on their heads, but the evidence suggests that it was done long ago.
Posted by: Steve | November 19, 2009 at 04:16 PM
Note to parents. Don't experiment on your children! And Inquiring Mind? He deserves all the humiliation and more that we as a caring and concerned blog can give him.
Posted by: nursecindy | November 19, 2009 at 04:47 PM
the kid would fit in with these guys,
Posted by: insomniac | November 19, 2009 at 05:05 PM
Note to parents. Don't experiment on your children!
What's wrong with that? How else will we learn??
Posted by: Walter Bishop | November 19, 2009 at 05:10 PM
Most of us couldn't understand whatever language our kids spoke their first three years either.
Posted by: Marie Antoinette | November 19, 2009 at 07:31 PM
"Not some gutteral genuflecting concoction..."
I'm not sure what word the reporter of after, here, but I don't think "genuflecting" was the right one.
Posted by: Richard the Weasel-Hearted | November 19, 2009 at 07:54 PM
Steve,
Have you heard the Bill Cosby routine that begins, "Until I was 3 years old, I thought my name was 'Jesus Christ!'"?
Posted by: Richard the Weasel-Hearted | November 19, 2009 at 07:55 PM
It really wasn't more than "playing" Klingon and probably stretched the young man's mind. Anyway, now he's ready for the invasion.
Posted by: Morgana | November 19, 2009 at 10:41 PM
"Wouldn't it be great if we taught our kids to talk wrong? Like on their first day of school and they have to go to the bathroom. They raise their hand and say, "May I put my dogface in the banana patch?" Steve Martin
Posted by: cheryl howard | November 19, 2009 at 11:23 PM
True story. A friend's niece was baby-sat for by an elderly Italian women her first few years. You guessed it. She began speaking in broken-english.
Posted by: njl | November 20, 2009 at 05:34 AM
He's either a complete idiot or a genius.
Posted by: ONE of THE GUYS | November 20, 2009 at 06:10 AM
What an idiot!
Everyone knows that First Contact will be made by a Vulcan, not a Klingon!
*snork* @ Walter Bishop
Posted by: Wolfsong | November 20, 2009 at 01:14 PM