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You can hear a recording of Alec singing this here. He even would sing the Klingon Imperial Anthem, May the Empire Endure, as a bedtime lullaby to the boy, which his son soon picked up and would also sing. In any event, unlike his wife, Speers almost exclusively spoke to Alec in Klingon. Incidentally, Speers’ dissertation was on the topic of sign language, Representation of American Sign Language for Machine Translation.) For more on this, see: How Deaf People Think. Through much of human history, this is largely why deaf people were once considered mentally deficient, even though with an adequate language taught to them at an early age, like a sign language, they are just as intelligent as anyone else on average. (Lack of an adequate language for your brain to use before the age of 5-ish can severely stunt a person’s mental capacity and causes extremely detrimental learning disabilities in later life, even if a language is eventually learned.
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So as not to cause Alec to have potential learning disabilities and to make sure his son could fully integrate into society without language problems, Speers’ wife, who was fully behind Speers’ experiment, always spoke English to the child.
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He stated of this decision, “I was interested in the question of whether my son, going through his first language acquisition process, would acquire it like any human language.” He soon became one of the more famous members of KLI when he decided to experiment with trying to teach his son Alec to be a native speaker of Klingon. “I thought to myself, ‘A new language.’ The fact that it was a constructed language really appealed to me. The flyer was advertising the Klingon Language Institute (KLI), founded by Dr. Speers became fascinated with the Klingon language after reading a flyer on a bulletin board at Georgetown where he was studying linguistics. They tend to be language lovers fascinated by constructed languages, of which Klingon is a relatively thriving one, hence why they gravitate towards it. Indeed, many Klingon language enthusiasts aren’t, contrary to popular perception. Speers is actually not a huge Start Trek fan himself. The man in question is computational linguist Dr. Today I found out a man once tried to raise his son as a native speaker in Klingon.