Calling all fluent in Klingon

[Guest Olympic Slam]

I'm sure most of you have heard about THIS one. But for the few who haven't.....

 

This one is a two-parter. Here's the original article......

 

PORTLAND, Ore.  — Position Available: Interpreter, must be fluent in Klingon (search).

The language created for the Star Trek (search) 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.

 

Sounds reasonable right? I mean we wouldn't want to discriminate or be mean-spirited to these people right? Well, apparently everyone climbed down from that "ladder of stupidity" on Tuesday.........

 

Officials have said they won't be needing your services, after all.

 

The office that treats mental health patients in Multnomah County had included Klingon on a list of 55 languages that could be spoken by incoming patients.

 

But the inclusion of the Star Trek  language drew a spate of tongue-in-cheek headlines.

 

And now the county has rescinded its call, stressing that it hasn't spent a penny of public money on Klingon interpretation.

 

"It was a mistake, and a result of an overzealous attempt to ensure that our safety net systems can respond to all customers and clients," Multnomah County chair Diane Linn said in a news release.

 

County officials had previously said that no patient had ever come in speaking only Klingon, but that the county would pay a Klingon interpreter in the unlikely case one was actually needed.

 

In recent years, Klingon has gone from being a fictional tongue for the Star Trek television and movie series to a complete language, with its own grammar, syntax and vocabulary.

All articles from FoxNews.com

 

 

Who is crazier? The nuts who speak this stuff and only this stuff or is it the psychos who actually CONSIDERED spending the tax payer's money on this?

[Guest Cancer Marney]

The latter. I saw an article on this crap on CNN and I couldn't believe my eyes. Anyone still think we can't afford tax cuts? Anyone? Anyone?

 

Didn't think so.

[Guest MrRant]

I've been to a Star Trek convention in Las Vegas... one of the big ones.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yikes.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Bahk Dhar Toom Dekken Mul sed.