Dad speaks only in Klingon to son

Maybe if you were a little more intelligent, you wouldn't be so pissed off.

Try reading some of the comments here before saying such stupid shit.

"I do think that poor kid will have a hard time in the real world!"

Yes, that "poor kid" will have a hard time in the real world because he was blessed with bilingualism. Oh, the HORROR!

@ atainder:

*facepalm*

In order to avoid personally attacking you, I'm going to just calmly tell you to read my previous comment on the first page.

Thanks for sharing that important information.

He's putting effort into it because it's his opinion. You expect him to just roll over? Think again.

He is like fly paper... dont be a fly.

They make fun of you if you're smart in math. So what?

I bet they don't either, because it's a useless fucking language.

Moreover, it is not even a language. Hello? it is a TV show and not an especially good one, though I watched it on acid once after school many years ago, which was fun.

No it does not qualify as child abuse. That's why CPS is a loser state agency. They don't know what is the difference between abuse and what they don't like parents doing.

LOL!!!

hahaha i just spit my food out laughing oh man

His mom taught him English
Here's a more detailed article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/19/darmond-speers-dad-spoke_n_363477.html

Aha! So the article above is slanted... badly. Thanks for the heads up!

Now it's actually a pretty cool story. :D

Yeah, it's a flat out false and incredibly misleading headline, lol.
Still a cool story though.

Do you speak Klingon? Do you know of ANY group of people numbering more than 1,000 that are RAISED to speak purely Klingon? I'm gonna go ahead and assume no, you don't. And now this kid has to take english, french, spanish, whatever, he has to take ANY "Earth" language as a second language... can you imagine how humiliating it would be for this kid to write down his first learned language as Klingon?!

Also, regarding video games, it hasn't been absolutely confirmed that violent video games = violent people, because being a violent person depends on alot more things than simply violent video games... but that doesn't matter, because you're comparison of violent games to raising a child to speak Klingon is, well stupid; there's no other way to describe that comparison.

And being a bad parent has to do with a lot more than what language you teach your child.

It seems like a bit of a selfish act to teach your child a fictional film characters language as it's first and only language does it not? I'm sure he's a wonderful doting father, but unfortunately he has hindered his child from from speaking to anyone else that doesn't attend Star Trek conventions

You can teach him another language. It's not the end of the world. It was a harmless experiment. It's not like he used a disease to infect a rabbit and then watch it die.

"It was a harmless experiment. It's not like he used a disease to infect a rabbit and then watch it die."

This will harm him in the long run if he doesn't speak a proper language... whether you poison an organic being or teach an unrecognised language to a child, it's going to cost him in the long run... maybe you just think of things being harmed in the short-run, I don't know, but this will definetely impede him if not harm him.

Also, have you tried to learn a second language? If you have, then you'd know how incredibly hard it is to actually be fluent at it; if you haven't, well, that might explain how you make it sounds as though you can pick up a language just like that.

No pun intended Jammer, but what planet are you from? Essentially the child has no vialbe means of communication. Would you consider it abusive if his father refused to teach him to speak at all? Because the net result is exactly the same, no ability to communicate verbally.

Second, you don't "experiment" with your children like they're lab rats. If his father wanted to experiment on himself with a taser, that would be fine with me, but you don't mess with kids, ESPECIALLY in such formative years.

Third, with any luck this bonehead of a "father" will lose custody of his child and be forced to spend some time behind bars where the unintelligible sounds coming out of HIS mouth with be due to the fact he's bunked with a guy who likes to be called Big Mary.

No pun intended Jammer, but what planet are you from? Essentially the child has no vialbe means of communication. Would you consider it abusive if his father refused to teach him to speak at all? Because the net result is exactly the same, no ability to communicate verbally.

Second, you don't "experiment" with your children like they're lab rats. If his father wanted to experiment on himself with a taser, that would be fine with me, but you don't mess with kids, ESPECIALLY in such formative years.

Third, with any luck this bonehead of a "father" will lose custody of his child and be forced to spend some time behind bars where the unintelligible sounds coming out of HIS mouth with be due to the fact he's bunked with a guy who likes to be called Big Mary.

You should have said no pun intended with the "bonehead" comment. Your statement is similar to stating how does a deaf child communicate----he's not without communication. Only those that want to hate on the father would think so.

J_Jammer, though I am convinced that you only comment in the ways that you so often do to be disagreeable and confrontational and, well, to get a rise out of people...I can't help but comment on your exceedingly inane comments here.

I take it that you do not have children due to your saying that its "not the end of the world" and that it was a "harmless experiment." Children at that age are obviously very impressionable and the foundation that you lay for them at this age helps to make them functional HUMAN beings. This has indeed harmed this child developmentally and, soon enough, socially. Now, instead of having four-five years of normal, NON-FICTION, HUMAN language skills instilled in his brain, he'll only have 1-2 before starting school.

Unless, of course, this winner of a dad decides to home school him. I wish him luck in finding text books written in Klingon that his son will understand.

The damage done here is not irreversible, but this poor kid should not have been put through this to begin with.

I do not have children and I bet you don't have Japanese children. I don't have children, I have - for many years - worked with children. The fact of the matter is it is not the end of the world and that child is not your child. Harm that was done is only fiction because people don't like different.

Um...Japanese children? What?

"Harm that was done is only fiction because people don't like different." I love different. I do different for a living! But this is not only "different." Its putting a child's development off by years for a pointless experiment. If you think that this was a positive thing for this child's well-being, can I ask you what good you think it did for this kid in the long-term?

A cool dad and something no other child got from their parents. The child will love it whether you think he will or not doesn't make a hill of beans. Always wanted to say that.

Don't you know, J_Jammer knows all? He/she has never been wrong about anything EVER so just admit it and move along.

Apparently J even knows how to see the future now. J can predict that this kid will think his dad is cool, based solely on the facts in this story!

The father readily shared what he had done with his child without feeling the need to fully explain himself with excessive words. He had to spend time with his child in order to teach the child...they have a lot of bonding and it's fairly unique. Dedication and love. It's there if you want to see it.

You guys who are against J_J are all a little mixed up.
What this article fails to point out is that the boy learned English from his mother, who spoke it to him regularly. Here's a more detailed article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/19/darmond-speers-dad-spoke_n_363477.html

So the boy has 2 native languages. Studies have shown that native bilinguals may have an easier time learning additional languages. So what the father did was actually beneficial to the child.

I didn't step in anything. You did.....as one can see that that isn't the only language he knows.

I have to wonder, did he have a license to spawn?

Looks like loss of empathy has already started.

So you defend the notion of raising children on Klingon first language? Now I know that you would argue about anything at any cost.

SleepDirt, did you even research the story you posted?
The child's first language is English.
Your headline is wrong.

I don't argue anything at any cost. I pick the right side at the right cost.