Re: Klingon speaker needed in Portland, Oregon

On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 11:53:47AM +0200, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote:
> My guess is that the mental patient(s) really don't speak Klingon at all.
> What probably will happen is that the Klingon translator will show up for
> work one day, and quickly establish that all the patients can speak is
> gibberish.
>
> Just think about it. How many non-klingonists can tell the difference
> between real Klingon and gibberish? I'm not sure *I* can.
An excellent point.  On the other hand, paranoid schizophrenics
(just one example of a possible category of "mental patient')
have been known to put a great deal of complexity/"effort" into
their personal realities ("idiopats"?), so it's not impossible
that some of them actually do speak Okrandian Klingon.  However,
even if that's so, and they really have patients unwilling to use
anything but Klingon to communicate, it should suffice to have a
volunteer Klingonist on call, or find someone already bilingual in
a more practical language who's willing to learn Klingon, too.

-Mark