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Thread #81477   Message #1498744
Posted By: semi-submersible
02-Jun-05 - 09:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: Any one speak Globish? This is serious..
Subject: RE: BS: Any one speak Globish? This is serious..
Do you by any chance mean Klingon?

I heard an anecdote about the guy Paramount hired before the third Star Trek movie to invent a "language" (out of the nonsense phrases the enemy characters made on the first two films). Just for fun, he designed the Klingon language without a verb "to be." (Some languages don't use it.) Then when he brings his complete lexicon to the studio for the first time, one of the Klingon stars comes up to him: "Oh, good, you can translate this line for me: 'To be or not to be...'"