Minnesota dad spoke only Klingon to child for three years

Re:Minnesota dad spoke only Klingon to child for three years by Grinnmarr on Thursday November 19, 2009 @12:18AM (#949785)

"I was interested in the question of whether my son, going through his first language acquisition process, would acquire it like any human language,"

Klingon is a human language! Who does he think created Klingon. And he has a Phd? Nice logic.

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Re:Minnesota dad spoke only Klingon to child for three years by KC8ZKF on Thursday November 19, 2009 @12:41AM (#949799)

I suspect "human language" has a very specific meaning among linguists.

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Re:Minnesota dad spoke only Klingon to child for three years by crux on Thursday November 19, 2009 @01:09AM (#949822)

'human language' actually means very little among linguists. If he were being very precise he'd say 'natural language'.

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Re:Minnesota dad spoke only Klingon to child for three years by KC8ZKF on Thursday November 19, 2009 @02:50AM (#949915)

Then I think he meant "any human language", which makes more sense than "any human language."

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Re:Minnesota dad spoke only Klingon to child for three years by throw_away on Thursday November 19, 2009 @01:05AM (#949819)

Likewise, who created programming languages? :)

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Re:Minnesota dad spoke only Klingon to child for three years by BerislavLopac on Thursday November 19, 2009 @04:07AM (#949960)

Programmers. Ergo...

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