Hm. I was surprised to discover that I voted for esperanto but not klingon -- although that probably ought to be the case in general, I expected that I, and that my friends, would find Klingon more often. I'm interested to see everyone else did.
(I assume if -- as unlikely as it seems -- you could vote for both, you should not vote, or vote for whichever was useful more often.)
Of course, there might be times when it might be useful to know EITHER, eg. to keep notes which are not trivially decodable by someone else :)
I would expect Klingon to be more useful for the purposes of indecipherable note-taking. I understand that Esperanto is somewhat similar to Romance and Slavic languages in its grammar and vocabulary.
I have watched several TV shows and movies which include Klingon.
:) I have too, but I assumed (?) all of them were designed to have their optimum artistic effect when you find out what the Klingon means when and only when there are subtitles, and have no reason to doubt that, which means that even though I might have understood more, I wouldn't have said it was useful.
Whereas I have -- very very very rarely -- heard something in Esperanto without translation.
I hadn't realised the background speech in Gattaca was Esperanto - and I have read the SSR books, and had completely forgotten about the Esperanto in that!
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(I assume if -- as unlikely as it seems -- you could vote for both, you should not vote, or vote for whichever was useful more often.)
Of course, there might be times when it might be useful to know EITHER, eg. to keep notes which are not trivially decodable by someone else :)
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And I've never encountered Esperanto in the wild, while I have watched several TV shows and movies which include Klingon.
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:) I have too, but I assumed (?) all of them were designed to have their optimum artistic effect when you find out what the Klingon means when and only when there are subtitles, and have no reason to doubt that, which means that even though I might have understood more, I wouldn't have said it was useful.
Whereas I have -- very very very rarely -- heard something in Esperanto without translation.
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Also, have you read any of Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat books?
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I hadn't realised the background speech in Gattaca was Esperanto - and I have read the SSR books, and had completely forgotten about the Esperanto in that!