Don’t Laugh. Klingon And Elvish Are Real Languages.

4 responses to “Don’t Laugh. Klingon And Elvish Are Real Languages.”

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   dogcat

   September 28, 2013 at 12:12 pm

   Surely this is already common knowledge for anyone who visits this site. People were having Klingon weddings 30 years ago!

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   shadow

   September 28, 2013 at 12:41 pm

   In other breaking news, the sky is blue.

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   kolreth

   September 28, 2013 at 2:00 pm

   More people speak klingon than esperanto, and is the fastest evolving language on the planet at this time. There are multiple elven dialects plus the language of mordor that are fully described by Tolkien, he was a professor of language at oxford.

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      Eo

      August 12, 2015 at 3:34 pm

      Klingon has about 30 fluent speakers (or so Wikipedia tells me) where Esperanto has several thousand. Where are your numbers coming from?

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   crowdedtrousers

   September 28, 2013 at 8:05 pm

   i laughed so hard milk came out my nose, which was strange because i wasn’t drinking any. must get that checked.

   anyhoo – love me some Tolkien but no-one’s native tongue is Klingon or Elvish. like Scientology they stem entirely from fiction, devices to entertain that people want to take seriously. they have almost no pedigree and scant cultural currency (excluding specific conferences). they could have never have existed and the world would look as it does today. they may fit an academic definition of the term ‘language’ but they pale into insignificance compared to English, Spanish or Japanese.

   [flame suit activated]

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