"Local dad spoke only Klingon to child for three years"

A little too overboard? What do you think?

From the Minnesota/St.Paul City Pages

Is this taking the whole Star Trek thing a teensie weensie bit too far? d'Armond Speers spoke only Klingon to his child for the first three years of its life. Klingon? Not Spanish, French, Mandarin? Not some gutteral genuflecting concoction from the deepest recesses of Borneo? Klingon? You heard it right. (And if you don't know about the Klingon Empire, look it up.)
"I was interested in the question of whether my son, going through his first language acquisition process, would acquire it like any human language," Speers told the Minnesota Daily. "He was definitely starting to learn it."


hat tip: Topless Robot where I read this first.

Tags: Star Trek, geek parenting

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Too overboard. Considering that a student's chance for success in our educational system has a lot to do with learning in your native language... this is a poor gamble.

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