complete with "mask"?? LOL

I haven't seen the film, which is why the name rang no bells and I had to Google it. To be honest, I don't want to see it either!



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Re google language preferences _ Yes, I noticed that last week, and it was on my list of possible subjects to mention here, but you beat me to it... Another of the listed options is 'Klingon', which is of course quite a well-documented language by now. (One of the few details that I really liked about the first 'Star Trek' movie was when the scene set aboard a Klingon ship had the crew speaking in their own tongue, with English subtitles provided for the audience. That was neat...)

A few years ago a journalist writing in 'New Scientist' magazine reported about an international conference somewhere in Switzerland (at Geneva, IIRC...). He (or she?) mentioned that the wrappings around the sugar cubes provided in the conference centre's restaurant bore greetings in differing languages, with translations (into one or more of the languages used locally? into English?) that he could understand... and that alongside the ones bearing messages in (IIRC) Chinese and Armenian was one in Klingon!

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In Oregon a mental health service has had to employ a Kilngon speaker to enable equal access...

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Ah, no. Sorry, but this story came up on alt.fan.pratchett and was roundly debunked. It seems that what happened was that some loon decided he was only going to speak Klingon from now on, and one of the doctors who treated him reported the case at a conference, and remarked as a joke that he supposed he'd have to hire a Klingon interpreter now. Of course the press got the story from the medical journals, and the next thing you know ...



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Ah well, good story anyway...



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There was a body of opinion that speaking Klingon at all was evidence of mental illness. I disagreed. Ela sila lumenn' omentielvo.



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That would be "elen", wouldn't it? ;-)

Minsky is a trifle annoyed that Google doesn't list "Cat" among its language preferences.



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Jon - you may have disagreed, but how does your being able to quote some advance the argument? QED, one would have suspected...



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Erm, I was using the version in 'The History of Middle Earth Vol. IV' (JRRT's Laundry Lists) ....

(Hey, it's not Klingon! It's much more intellectual!)



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