Citations:Klingon

English citations of Klingon

warrior or culture

• 2006, Will Self, Junk mail, Black Cat, →ISBN, page 41:

  The décor is late Klingon, as are the waitresses, who sashay around in long, velour coat robes underneath big hair. […] He breaks off to order an espresso from a Klingon who's wafting by

• 2008, Tara Brabazon, Thinking Popular Culture, War, Terrorism and Writing, Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 119:

  I do not need wireless access to Wikipedia. No one does. The digi-literate who have run out of friends to text message on the train do not need to enlarge the listing for Klingon while they are on the move.

• 2008, Suzie Millions, The Complete Book of Retro Crafts, Collecting, Displaying & Making Crafts of the Past, Sterling Publishing Company, →ISBN, illustrated, page 21:

  Filling in what should have been light flesh with dark brown paint, the artist gives this Lamb of God the sweeping scowl of a Klingon warrior.

• 2008, Lenya Heitzig and Penny Pierce Rose, Live Intimately, Lessons from the Upper Room, Fresh Life Series, Fresh Life Bible Studies, David C. Cook (publisher), →ISBN, page 102:

  As might be expected, the headlines were filled with references to Star Wars and Klingon cloaking devices. […] The secret is not some microwave frequency or a Klingon cloaking device, but the supernatural ability of an omnipresent and omniscient God!

language

• 1999, Angela D. Friederici and Randolf Menzel, Learning, Rule Extraction and Representation, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, illustrated, pages 199–200:

  To address this issue, we used unfamiliar letters from an unknown alphabet (Klingon Alphabet) as stimulus materials for which in principle both types of codes can be generated.

• 2006, Mikael Parkvall, Limits of Language, Almost Everything You Didn't Know You Didn't Know About Language and Languages, Battlebridge Publications, →ISBN, illustrated, page 130:

  At least one parent did start to raise a child in Klingon, but gave the experiment up after a couple of years.

• 2009, Alan Allport and John E. Ferguson Jr., Immigration Policy, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 96:

  After a couple of days of this story circulating in the media, embarrassed Multnomah County officials announced that the need for a Klingon translator had been dropped.

• 2012 October 4, “Andy's Ancestry” (11:52), in The Office (US), season 9, episode 3, spoken by Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson):

  People laughed at Klingon at first, and now you can major in it.

• 2012 November 1, Laura Wright, “UT Language Creation Society invites students to learn origins of newer languages”, in The Daily Texan‎^[1]:

  You might be familiar with more a priori conlangs than you think: The Klingon language from the television series “Star Trek,” the Na’vi language from the movie “Avatar,” and the Dothraki language from the television series “Game of Thrones” are all examples of a priori languages.