dans.blog: Klingon Interpreter Sought for Patients

Position Available: Interpreter, must be fluent in Klingon.

The language created for the "Star Trek" TV series and movies is one of about 55 needed by the office that treats mental health patients in metropolitan Multnomah County.

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"There are some cases where we've had mental health patients where this was all they would speak," said the county's purchasing administrator, Franna Hathaway.

- New York Post via AP

Categories: Humor

1 Comments

Dan G. Switzer, II
May 12, 2003 @ 2:33 PM

quote:
Every once in a while, in order to remind myself of the quality of information typically reported, I trace down the source of a particularly ridiculous story. The "Klingon Language Interpreter" myth, which is spawning now, provides an amusing case study of the process of pack journalism.

from:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/5/11/7032/18347...

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