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From: stevemac@bud.indirect.com (Pascal MacProgrammer)
Subject: Name pronunciation
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 19:00:13 GMT
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Not so very long ago, andre@shappski.demon.co.uk said...
>Kligon is a language more widely know of (in world terms) and barely 
>less spoken than Esperanto.

  This is certainly surprising!
  Given that estimates of the number of Esperanto-users sometimes 
(probably reflecting much wishful thinking) are sometimes in the very low 
millions, I'd have to say that there are no doubt hundreds of thousands 
of Esperanto speakers in the world.
  If Klingon is "barely less spoken than Esperanto", and I charitably call 
10% as many "barely less", then there must be tens of thousands of 
Klingons among us.  If so, then this fact has gone generally unnoticed.

> Surely Klingon should be our Europe/Woldwide langauge (I just know that
>the sense of irony is going to get lost mid-atlantic somewhere ...). 

  Better Klingon (or Farsi, or Swahili, or even English) than no European 
or worldwide language at all.  Of course, Esperanto would be the =very= 
best choice.

>"You cannot fully appreciate Shakespeare until you have heard it in the 
>original Klingon" - some Klingon in some episode of Start Trek.

  Live long and perspire.

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