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http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/05/10/offbeat.klingon.interpreter/index.html
Qapla'! Hospital seeks Klingon speaker
Saturday, May 10, 2003 Posted: 10:37 PM EDT (0237 GMT)
PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) -- Position Available: Interpreter, must be fluent in Klingon.
The language created for the "Star Trek" TV series and movies is one of about 55
needed by the office that treats mental health patients in metropolitan
Multnomah County.
"We have to provide information in all the languages our clients speak," said
Jerry Jelusich, a procurement specialist for the county Department of Human
Services, which serves about 60,000 mental health clients.
Although created for works of fiction, Klingon was designed to have a consistent
grammar, syntax and vocabulary.
And now Multnomah County research has found that many people -- and not just
fans -- consider it a complete language.
"There are some cases where we've had mental health patients where this was all
they would speak," said the county's purchasing administrator, Franna Hathaway.
County officials said that obligates them to respond with a Klingon-English
interpreter, putting the language of starship Enterprise officer Worf and other
Klingon characters on a par with common languages such as Russian and
Vietnamese, and less common tongues including Dari and Tongan.
