Training, learning and stuff

[lpetersson]

Today I decided what I'm going to try to study next.
As some of you may know, I'm currently studying to get an MCSE, and I have been thinking about what I want to study once that's over and done with (Early November I hope).
I have now decided that the time has come for me to learn Klingon.

And no, I'm not actually joking. I've been wanting to learn Klingon for quite some time. It's my dirty little secret...

Comments

[greap.livejournal.com]

Klingon is a really cool language to learn actualy. In the right company you sounds really cool when you start speaking it too.

[stevek.livejournal.com]

Aah .. Shakespeare in the original Klingon! I can see it now being performed at The Globe. ;-)

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

I find the idea of learning fictional languages rather than real languages disconcerting.

I mean, imagine if anthropologists started investigating Buffy rather than genuine mythologies.....

[lpetersson.livejournal.com]

Good point actually.
But considering that Anthropologists in a few hundred years would probably find that British cows were vicious cannibals who probably hunted their own kind, I doubt that it would really matter all that much :)
I know it's not exactly the same, but I thought it was an amusing comparison.

What about Esperanto? Do you consider that a real language or a fictional one?

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... Technically it is classified as an "artificial", rather than a natural language. However, since there are 200 and 2,000 people who speak it as their first, native, language that is obviously changing.

[lee-c-rip.livejournal.com]

I'd quite like to learn Orcish :)

[lpetersson.livejournal.com]

Heh. One big difference is that Klingon has been fully developed and can be spoken and communicated in just like Danish or English...

[lee-c-rip.livejournal.com]

I have actually been told thar all the lord of the rings languages have been developed in reality. not sure if its true though.

[lpetersson.livejournal.com]

I have heard something like that too, except I think it's only the alfabet. I don't think anyone actually speaks it.
But I could be wrong...

[nailbug.livejournal.com]

Elvish is an actual fully-developed language and can be studied - in America. Bah.