Man Spoke Only Klingon to His Son for Three Years (And Wrote Us a Letter)

d'Armond Speers isn't absolutely a huge Star Trek fan. The acumen he batten alone in Klingon during his son's aboriginal three years of activity was to apprentice about accent accretion processs. Yeah, sure. What a petaQ. Updated: Speers wrote in.

Yes, I anticipate That Speers is such a alarming being that I had to apprentice how to say so in Klingon from our intern Don. It just baffles me that Speers in fact sounds absolutely appreciative of his claimed pseudo-academic project:

I was absorbed in the catechism of whether my son, traveling through his aboriginal accent accretion process, would access it like any animal language. He was absolutely starting to apprentice it."

It's abundant that he capital to see how languages are best up, but did he not anticipate that there's abeyant that he hindered his son's amusing development by befitting focus abroad from a absolute language? I'm all for teaching adopted languages aboriginal on, but lets accomplish it ones that are announced on this planet, please. [Citypages viaGeekologie]

Update 1: Turns out that d'Armond Speers is a circadian Gizmodo clairvoyant and not too aflame about what I or some of you accept said. To his acclaim though, he wrote me a actual affable email and at no point alleged me any amount of abhorrent words that I ability not understand.

Among added things, in his email Speers explained that his son is 15 now and has angry into a abundant kid. While he didn't acknowledgment about which languages his son speaks or studies now (or about how the boy feels about his adolescence accent experiment), the accepted association is artlessly that he's a blessed camper afterwards any amusing scars.

As far as the capital affair went, Speers told me that the alone time he batten Klingon about his son during those three years was if the two were interacting directly. His son was primarily apparent to English in his ambiance and aswell empiric Speers speaking the accent to others, which was why this accomplished affair didn't plan as planned:

This ultimately was the acumen the attack failed, because it was an added accomplishment for him to allege Klingon to me, that was acutely not all-important because I acutely batten English.

Clever kid. Why should he be speaking in tongue-twisters to dad if he doesn't accept to? Sounds like a slightly-too-early archetype of boyish apostasy and no acumen it shouldn't, because according to Speers, abreast from the Star Trek influence, his son had a appealing accustomed childhood:

Second, just because I batten Klingon does not beggarly that I was teaching him to apply a bat'leth or alcohol atramentous ale. It was a language, and we did accustomed things that added parents do.

While even afterwards Speers' email (and his abrupt faculty of humor), I still don't anticipate that Klingon (or any complete language) is the best accent to advise a adolescent who's still almost acquisitive his mother tongue, the man abaft the adventure seems a lot added animal now. And while I or some of you may not accede with his methodologies or that his adolescent was his accountable for study, Speers didn't assume to let his bookish curiosities overpower his primary advantage as a parent. So, final altercation or not, I yield aback the petaQ.

Update 2: Original column angel removed at the appeal of the adolescent in it.