Well fucking done Apple, You support Klingon... WTF??

[Omphaloskepsis]

I want some money back.

[yurbud]

1. It's one of the former Soviet Republics

[Bassic]

4. Lol

They were really grumpy soviets :D

[yurbud]

6. They were loyal commies though--look at their pic of Che:

[Bassic]

34. ROFL!

:rofl:

Very nicely done :D

[Bassic]

2. So what?

Some freaks like to speak Klingon. How does that affect the other languages supported or the general quality of the product?

[Bassic]

3. dupe

sorry.

[ET Awful]

5. You're upset that a company run by nerds has Trekkie content in their OS?

I'd be more surprised if it WASN'T there.

[yurbud]

7. If you call tech support and wait past "press 1 for English," you'll hear options for Klingon....

Elvish, dwarf, and orc.

[Bridget Burke]

19. "Elvish"?

Surely, you mean Quenya or Sindarin!

(Nerds? Who's a Nerd?)

[yurbud]

24. sorry, all them smooth-skinned, pointy-eared immortal types look alike to me.

[Omphaloskepsis]

30. I don't think you would do well in Iceland.

Just sayin'.

[yurbud]

31. Icelanders are immortal elves?

[Omphaloskepsis]

32. It is a little known fact...

But, you are correct. Ask Bjork.

[yurbud]

33. geeze, if I had thought of her, I wouldn't even have had to ask, although she could be pixie

[xmas74]

21. I would be too.

That and a few others. If they weren't there I'd worry for the fate of nerds worldwide.

[hunter]

8. I think more people speak Klingon than Esperanto...

Support for more languages, even invented languages, is a good thing.

[begin_within]

9. Where did you find that list?

On my eMac running 10.3.9, I get this dialog box:



Even if I click on "Edit..." the list that comes up still doesn't contain "Klingon."

[Omphaloskepsis]

13. It is actually the application Monolingual..

I'm sure it is joke from them and not Apple.

http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/

[begin_within]

14. OK thanks!

[YankeyMCC]

10. And this is upsetting because?

[Omphaloskepsis]

20. I don't really care..

I thought it was funny..

[ghostsofgiants]

11. Yet there's no time zone for Newfoundland on my ipod.

Fucking Apple. x(

[Omphaloskepsis]

29. Canada...

Do you think anyone cares? Do you speak Klingon?

I'm just kidding and so very, very bored.

[Shakespeare]

12. Guess that iPod's just too white & nerdy. n/t

[Syncronaut Seven]

15. Klingon Speakers Now Outnumber Navajo Speakers by 7 to 1

NEW YORK—According to a report released Monday by the Modern Language Association, speakers of the Star Trek-based Klingon language outnumber individuals fluent in Navajo by a margin of more than seven-to-one.

"Navajo, a 3,000-year-old Native American tonal language belonging to the Athabaskan/Na-Dené group of tongues, is clearly dying and will likely be extinct by 2010," MLA president Frederick Toback said. "Fortunately, though, the sad, steady decline of this once-proud Native American tongue has been more than offset by a rising interest in Klingon culture."

Klingon speakers said they are pleased with the report. "Every day, more and more people are discovering the excitement and challenge of Klingon, or, as it's called by native speakers, tlhIngan-Hol,"

"More than 200 titles are currently available, with more on the way all the time," said Bob "nIteb'Ha" Janowitz, editor of HolQeD, a quarterly Klingon literary journal. "It truly is a booming industry."

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29426

[ZombieNixon]

17. 1. Even though that's from the Onion, it almost sounds credible.

2. Ironically, the sound system for Klingon was heavily influenced by Navajo.

:o

[Radical Activist]

16. awesome

[northzax]

18. so does Google, by the way

http://www.google.com/intl/xx-klingon/

and while it is supported in OSX, you have to use the romanised version.

[edbermac]

22. Klaatu Barada Nikto...

:shrug:

[yurbud]

25. Gort!

[yurbud]

26. that's actually Yiddish for "I've fallen and I can't get up"

[Deja Q]

23. So when is Paramount going to sue?

They went after IBM because they used the word "Warp" (even though that word is not directly related TO Star Trek...)

So they'd better go after Apple.

[yurbud]

27. they are kind of humorless on that stuff, even though they fucked up a perfectly good franchise

[Deja Q]

28. Paramount can't read the Neilsens properly either...

The original (the best of the bunch IMHO) was reaching its target audience and that was before the Neilsens were targeted toward those age groups. Oopsie.