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Klingon boldy going into Pop Culture
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iguanamon
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02 November 2012 at 1:00pm | IP Logged

Just read this in the NYT Klingon Goes Boldly Beyond 'Star Trek' Into Pop Culture. The article mentions the video spoof of Gangnam Style- Klingon Style Video Spoof. Good for a laugh or two. The video has subtitles in Klingon, English, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese. Qaplah!

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New York Times wrote:

... Despite a tiny vocabulary of just 2,000 to 3,000 words, Klingon is the most spoken fictional language in the world, according to Guinness World Records. And last month saw a Swedish couple tie the knot in a Klingon wedding ceremony at London's "Star Trek" convention.

There is already a Klingon Language Institute, Klingon translations of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and the Book of Mormon, a Klingon version of the board game Monopoly, a Dutch opera sung in Klingon, an annual Klingon staging of "A Christmas Carol" in Chicago, and a guided tour of Australia's famous Jenolan caves near Sydney, conducted entirely in Klingon....

Edited by iguanamon on 02 November 2012 at 1:01pm
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02 November 2012 at 9:11pm | IP Logged

Wow...I woke up to Klingon pop music this morning! (it's not often that I can say that)

My wife also noticed that the Klingon MC had a Hawaiian flower in his hair around 02:36. And ladies, as it was on the right-hand side, this means he's "available"... ;)

Qapla'!

Edited by Teango on 02 November 2012 at 9:14pm
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