Re: OT - fan outrage

On 2007-03-19 21:06:01 -0500, Robert Weemeyer <robert.weemeyer@xxxxxx> said:

Doug Jacobs wrote:

Galen Musbach <musbachg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There are more people fluent in Klingon than there are in Esperanto.

And you can read Shakespeare in the original Klingon! ;)

Well, two works are available in Klingon. See
<http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare#En_Esperanto_aperis> for
a list of Shakespeare's works translated to Esperanto. That's much more,
and some works, including Hamlet, Julius Caesar and The Merchant of Venice,
can even be read online.

I really doubt the claim that there are more people fluent in Klingon than
in Esperanto. Where are those many Klingon speakers? Why does the Klingon
Enciclopedia <http://klingon.wikia.com/> offer only 107 articles - but the
Esperanto Wikipedia has 69,817? Where are the hundreds of Klingon speakers
clubs, where are the thousands of websites in Klingon? Have a look at
<http://dmoz.org/World/Esperanto/>.

Klingons have no need for Wikipedia. If they want information, they'll beat it out of you.

Plus, when's the last time someone spoke Esperanto on TV? When's the last time a TV character admitted, ashamedly, to speaking Esperanto?

Where do these many people learn Klingon?

Books, college courses.

Is there a website like <http://lernu.net/> in more than 20 languages with more than 30,000
registered users?

No.

Where can you hear Klingon?

Movies, TV, audiobooks...

Are there regular radio programmes in Klingon, are there podcasts, are there hundreds of new books every year?

No. Klingons do not have need of most of those things.

And where, finally, is a Klingon text on Anime?
<http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animeo>

Klingons are probably one of the few cultures that would consider Elfen Leid, Gantz, and other anime very tame. Thusly, they have no need for such "human" forms of entertainment.

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