At Least One Really Does Exist, Y'know

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Scene: Sociolinguistics class. The class is discussing language loss through generations of immigrants.

 

Girl: What about kids whose parents have learned a language and teach them to the kids, so the kids are native speakers but the parents aren’t?

Amelia: Like the native Klingon speakers?

Comments

[gryfindormia.livejournal.com]

Sociolinguistics sounds awesome. Please say that elicited a chuckle from the teacher.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

From pretty much everyone, actually.

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

. . . *peers at your subject* Do you know this for certain, or are you hypothesizing?

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Dr. d'Armond Speers's son. Speers spoke Klingon to his son from early in the son's life, partly as an experiment. However, while the son did pick it up, afer a while he rejected it (for the same reasons, presumably, that many first-generation immigrants reject their parents' native language, especially if the parents are biingual in the language of the larger community: he could not communicate with nearly as many people in it). The other problem was that Klingon didn't have a lot of words for important baby things, like diapers.

But yeah, that's the famous and documented one.

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

Oh, shiny.

[kjpepper.livejournal.com]

just the idea of a kid being a native Klingon or Quenya speaker has me in stitches.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

They DO have after-school classes on Quenya in some places ...