Originally posted by DerBademeister@12.05.2003, 19:42
Habt ihr schon mal was vom Begriff "Ente" gehört?
Irgendwelche abstrusen Quellen posten kann jeder, ob die dann auch der Wahrheit entsprechen, ist ein ganz anderes Thema.
Oregon County Seeks Klingon Interpreter for Mental Health Patients
The Associated Press
Published: May 10, 2003

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Position Available: Interpreter, must be fluent in Klingon.

The language created for the "Star Trek" TV series and movies is one of about 55 needed by the office that treats mental health patients in metropolitan Multnomah County.

"We have to provide information in all the languages our clients speak," said Jerry Jelusich, a procurement specialist for the county Department of Human Services, which serves about 60,000 mental health clients.

Although created for works of fiction, Klingon was designed to have a consistent grammar, syntax and vocabulary.

And now Multnomah County research has found that many people - and not just fans - consider it a complete language.

"There are some cases where we've had mental health patients where this was all they would speak," said the county's purchasing administrator, Franna Hathaway.

County officials said that obligates them to respond with a Klingon-English interpreter, putting the language of starship Enterprise officer Worf and other Klingon characters on a par with common languages such as Russian and Vietnamese, and less common tongues including Dari and Tongan.

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On the Net:

Klingon Language Institute: http://www.kli.org/

County Human Services: http://www.co.multnomah.or.us/dchs/dv/

AP-ES-05-10-03 1741EDT
Quelle: The Associated Press http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA57OOBKFD.html
Denen kann man für gewöhnlich glauben.

Auch wenn diese Story wirklich extrem abstrus ist....