I just heard this on the local radio station, and I can’t believe our tax dollars are being spent on this. From the story: “The fictional language of the popular TV and movie science fiction series is one of about 55 languages needed by the office that treats mental health patients in metropolitan Multnomah County. … If a patient speaks only Klingon, the county is obligated to respond with a Klingon interpreter. So officials have decided to include it with about 55 languages, some of which, such as Russian and Vietnamese, are widely spoken, and some, such as Dari and Tongan, are seldom spoken.”
If a patient only speaks Klingon, are they worth saving? At least you can use Google in Klingon.
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tax dollars are not being spent on this. The story as you have heard it has devolved into right-wing palaver
details here: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/5/11/7032/18347
and here:
http://snopes.com/humor/iftrue/klingon.asp
enjoy
Stupid, no. Uninformed and have less free time on my hand than you obviously do, definitely.
Regardless, I didn’t have a copy of the Oregonian from that day so I didn’t have a chance to dig it up, but what you say on your site is true (and I’ve met Steve Woodward personally, so I believe it) than the AP butthead who wrote the thing needs to be smacked around.
The only reason I believed the AP story is because spending money on this is something that the State of Oregon would do — and you should know that as well as I do. But that’s another debate for another time.
OK, I’m a dork, I’m responding thinking you actually wrote that K5 post, and not just citing it. If you are Seth, then great, otherwise ignore me 🙂