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minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·7 months agoI learned a bunch of Klingon way back when the first Klingon-English dictionary came out, but I’ve forgotten it all since then.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 months agoFor sure, but it also doesn’t help that we’re talking 1992 here and I was 15. (I’ve learned that it didn’t first come out then, but it did first come out in paperback in 1992.)
minus-squarebrbposting@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·7 months agoDoes it hurt more that we’re talking about a language where immersion would require living on a fantasy spaceship or a planet that doesn’t exist? Unless you grew up in the household where that dad only spoke Klingon his kid. Which was not very nice of him 😬
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·7 months agoWhoosh for me not getting the joke!
minus-squarebrbposting@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·7 months ago:D one day, when we’re maxing out a Holodeck’s capabilities together Squid (e.g. using them to browse Lemmy), it won’t be a joke no more
I learned a bunch of Klingon way back when the first Klingon-English dictionary came out, but I’ve forgotten it all since then.
Immersion is so important
For sure, but it also doesn’t help that we’re talking 1992 here and I was 15.
(I’ve learned that it didn’t first come out then, but it did first come out in paperback in 1992.)
Does it hurt more that we’re talking about a language where immersion would require living on a fantasy spaceship or a planet that doesn’t exist?
Unless you grew up in the household where that dad only spoke Klingon his kid. Which was not very nice of him 😬
Whoosh for me not getting the joke!
:D one day, when we’re maxing out a Holodeck’s capabilities together Squid (e.g. using them to browse Lemmy), it won’t be a joke no more