Klingon Language in Deutsche Welle Radio
The German international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) has added an online service in Klingon. According to BBC, this is what is happening in DW director's brain: "We should celebrate our 10-year presence in the online universe with a cross-border language. This should help users from other galaxies get an impression of Germany."
After centuries of building 'reality' based on illusions in the form of religions, it seems now humans have began to get inspirations from scince fictions. Crazy species!
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The Klingon language is an artificial language created for the TV series Star Trek. To know more about Klingon language click here.
What's funny to me is that the "Kling-ons" have always seemed to me to be based on a kind of bastardized, cartoonish depiction of the ancient visigoths, with maybe some mongol hordes thrown in. A German radio station is choosing this as the new lingua franca of the future? Once a barbarian...
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