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Leopard speaks Klingon

August 22, 2006 by in Apple,Stupid with 14 Comments

I am not a Trekkie, so the above obviously slipped by me. However, Tomiko was quick to point out that in the Leopard Developer Preview has the Klingon language (thlIngan Hol) in the list of possible languages. Tomiko also investigated that there doesn’t seem to be “any applications with Klingon localization”

Well, beam me up! I’ll leave this to all the Sci-Fi lovers out there. Gotta love developer Easter Eggs!


  • maijc

    In tiger (10.4) theres also the klingon language, i believe is because is recognized as a real languaje by the webster dictionary…

  • http://steve.deadlycomputer.com steve

    Google speaks klingon too.
    Now, i wonder if apple has the sense of humor of google, and will include elmer fudd, or hacker.

  • Vic

    But is it old or slang Klingon? :P

  • http://www.uneasysilence.com Dan

    geez with the Klingon.

  • Tomiko

    I wanted to try it on 10.4, but all my Macs are on 10.5DP partitions and I didn’t really have a frame of reference to Tiger/want to reboot.

  • http://joeanderson.co.uk/blog Joe Anderson

    tlhIngan maH! (We are Klingon)

    I speak a little Klingon… no joke :)

  • Noraa Haras

    Is this somehow related to the bacon wallet?

  • http://www.myspace.com/AlexTheMartian Alex

    It is a language, if someone or a group of people bothered to make up their own vocabulary then its a language. I dont see whats differnt between Klingon language and some language on a remote island in Pacific, they both were made up at some time, even English was made up (although mostly based on other languages)

    I believe everyhing that is poular belongs to be in the dictionary, becuase if a majory of English users recognize it, why not be part of the english language?

  • http://www.myspace.com/AlexTheMartian Alex

    I do have one thing to add about how stupid this is tho. Every persons that know any part of Klingon language will be speaking some other language (mostly English) as their main language, I dont think anyone in real life uses Klingon as a first language. So i beleive only languages that could be a first language for someone somewhere should be included as a language choise on an operating system.

    Now on a website, Klingon language is just as much fun as Pig Latin for language selection. I wonder if Wikipedia has thlIngan Hol.

  • Tomiko

    Wikipedia does have tlhIngan Hol, I believe it’s tlh.wikipedia.org.

  • http://smurfturf.net/ xSmurf

    What I ask myself is, since the Klingons have no word for “Hello/Welcome” but instead say “What do you want”, what would the intro/installation screen say after the installation? :P

  • Tomiko

    It’d probably say Qapla’. (It means success)

  • http://joeanderson.co.uk/blog Joe Anderson

    Indeed there is a Klingon Wikipedia. 67 articles, but it is now locked preventing new articles and new edits.

    Also, there’s a Klingon Google.

  • Agent

    Oh god y’all are nerds. =D

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