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Leopard speaks Klingon

Posted in Apple, Stupid by Dan at 8:45 pm
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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!

14 Responses to “Leopard speaks Klingon”

  1. maijc says:

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

  2. steve says:

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

  3. Vic says:

    But is it old or slang Klingon? :P

  4. Dan says:

    geez with the Klingon.

  5. Tomiko says:

    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.

  6. Joe Anderson says:

    tlhIngan maH! (We are Klingon)

    I speak a little Klingon… no joke :)

  7. Noraa Haras says:

    Is this somehow related to the bacon wallet?

  8. Alex says:

    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?

  9. Alex says:

    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.

  10. Tomiko says:

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

  11. xSmurf says:

    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

  12. Tomiko says:

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

  13. Joe Anderson says:

    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.

  14. Agent says:

    Oh god y’all are nerds. =D

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