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Re: "The Man Who Taught His Kid Klingon"

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• From: "ghunchu'wI'" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: "The Man Who Taught His Kid Klingon"
• Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:33:46 -0500
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On Nov 20, 2009, at 10:37 PM, Tracy Canfield wrote:

> The British tabloid The Sun just picked it up:
>
> http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2740083/Dad-spoke-to-son- 
> in-Klingon-for-three-years.html
>
> It's just a repackage of news available elsewhere.

It's worse than that.  It makes things up, leaves out important  
facts, and doesn't seem to offer any way for the reader to find more  
(and better) information.

> There is an
> entertainingly UK-flavored vocabulary sidebar, though.

"Entertaining"?  It's just plain ignorant.  It looks like something  
from the "Universal Translator Assistant" web page.

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