[SF] Klingon Interpreters Needed

[WayneLigon]

From the Associated Press

May 12, 2003 | PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) --

[The Klingon language]... is one of about 55 needed by the office that treats mental health patients in metropolitan Multnomah County.

"We have to provide information in all the languages our clients speak," said Jerry Jelusich, a procurement specialist for the county Department of Human Services, ... "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.

County officials said that obligates them to respond with a Klingon-English interpreter...

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So, I wonder if there are places that need Sindarin or Quenya speakers as well?

 

[Chun-tzu]

I believe this is the 2nd or 3rd EN World thread on this topic, but am currently too lazy to go find the others. Anyhow, don't send in your resume yet.

Klingon Linguists Not Needed

Officials in Multnomah County, Ore., have rescinded a call for Klingon language experts after news reports revealed the plan to hire interpreters for county mental health patients, the Associated Press reported. The office that treats county mental health patients had included Klingon—the fictional Star Trek alien tongue—on a list of 55 languages that could be spoken by incoming patients.

But the county has rescinded its call, stressing that it hasn't spent a penny of public money on Klingon interpretation, the AP reported. Multnomah County Chair Diane Linn told the wire service that the inclusion of Klingon was "a mistake, and a result of an overzealous attempt to ensure that our safety net systems can respond to all customers and clients."

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2003-05/13/11.00.film

 

[Umbran]

I think the story got a bit butchered when it hit the AP lines. While the county chairperson calls it "overzealous" is seems more to me that it was imply a joke. It was added to the list of languages that might be needed with the thought "What the heck, let's throw it in. It doesn't cost us any money".

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