nuq-Daq yuch Dapol?

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1550650]

Comments

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

Were you watching QI on Dave last night perchance? And if so, why is Panglish not on the list?

[supergee.livejournal.com]

I have copy-edited Star Trek books.

[neuralbuddha.livejournal.com]

According to someone I know with a PhD in linguistics, Klingon is the better crafted language and has more speakers.

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

Can we have one for Celtic languages now?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

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 :)

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

I'd rather like to learn to write Arabic -- but that's mostly a matter of wanting to do the ornate calligraphy myself, for which a keyboard (even plus PhotoShop for shaping-to-fit-spaces) seems to be simply inadequate. Not that I ever mastered (or accomplished much in) the "grass script" sometimes used in Japanese poetry manuscript, mind you.

[cybik.livejournal.com]

For a while my brother was learning Manchu..

[kashandara.livejournal.com]

I've been in a couple of relationships that I'm pretty sure the other party would have taken the break up hints better/faster if I could have given them in Klingon. This is not true of Esperanto...

[chuma.livejournal.com]

My boss is some higher up in the Esperanto society, so probably would just about be more useful than a language I would never need to use.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

This poll needs a third option, for "I have had an equal number of occasions" - in my case, zero for both.

[luckylove.livejournal.com]

There's a wonderful episode of Frasier where speaking Klingon turns out ot be very important. I think it's my favourite episode.

a more serious poll

[remush.livejournal.com]

see http://www.freewebs.com/international-languages/
results at http://multivote.sparklit.com/poll.spark/3142


3072 voted on " Which language should be the world's official common language? "

Results today (2010-04-14)
324 English
1964 Esperanto

247 "newly developed language"

Klingon should be mentioned here a few times
(adding your 43 votes here won't change much)

languages

[mankso.livejournal.com]

Mi parolas Esperanton jam de pli ol 60 jaroj, kaj neniam havis okazon paroli la Klingon-an au ech interesighi pri ghi.
Auskultu foje podkaston en Esperanto che Radio Polonia:
http://www.polskieradio.pl/eo/
au vizitu chiu-jaran kongreson:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Congress_of_Esperanto
The point is 'universal bilingualism' - YOUR ethnic language for you + non-ethnic Esperanto for all, NOT 'one language for the world' as is presently happening with World English!
Tá mé ag foghlaim na Gaeilge anois - tá sí teanga an-dúshlánach. There's some Irish for you too!