I Want to Learn to Speak Romulan!
August 14th, 2008 by Evil Beet
Dude, I’m such a Star Trek nerd.
Clifton Collins Jr. and Eric Bana had to learn to speak Romulan for the upcoming JJ Abrams Star Trek film.
“They had a linguist come in and invent Romulan!” he says.
OMG. I am SO in the wrong line of work. What I truly want to be is the official language inventor for Star Trek movies. I want to invent alien languages! Seriously I used to think my true dream in life was to be the person who named the new streets in a city (how much fun would that be??? How do you get that job anyway????) but now I think I want to be Star Trek’s official language inventor.
You know, a lot of universities these days offer classes in Klingon, a language that was invented a long time ago for Star Trek. I always wanted to take it, but it wasn’t taught at Arizona State. Everyone was too busy taking History of the Beatles and Human Sexuality. Oh, and drinking. Drinking was big there, too.
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Find an online Klingon class. They have to exist, this is the INTERNET.
Dude you are so effing funny!
BTW I don’t think there is a particular person who names streets in a given city.
City planners and residential developers get to name new streets (which is why they often have theme names, like flowers or trees. Or letters. Pfft). Apply to be a civil servant, work up through the ranks, then run for office or get appointed, depending on your city. They might do it by committee, or take a poll, or something. Check in areas of growth, like Atlanta or Las Vegas.
I wonder if Romulan sounds anything like Vulcan.
You have the developer names streets, then they send their suggestions to the city for approval.
Jimmy Doohan is credited with creating the Klingon language. Maybe being an engineer is the skill you need to get the job and you have that skill! Send a resume to JJ and ask if you can create the Orion Slave girl language for the next new Star Trek movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl45bhzneJM
Drinking and, you know, fornicating.
And getting 50 kinds of wasted and taking naked pics… for playboy!
Doesn’t Arizona State have a really good anthropology department, or is that the University of Arizona?
For those who care, Julia Child would be 96 tomorrow if she were still living.
If anyone wants to learn Klingon, you can go to the Klingon Language Institute website:
http://www.kli.org
omg, i’m a star trek nerd too- i used to have bangs like that, and that’s what i called them, romulan bangs!!!
you want to learn klingon? just listen to john mccains wife, that’s her tribe.
@joan
ha, i always secretly wanted bangs like that, but i always refered to them as liza- minnelli-in -cabaret bangs.
You Trekkie geeks are all probably quivering in eager anticipation for the new Star Trek online massively multiplayer game.
Wow, Beet. I used to think you were just cool, but now I’m moderately crushing on you. :)
Mark
are those actual classes? If that so I wanna take the ” how to get published class” and the “how to look hot as an Hollywood tween before it’s too late to enjoy it class”
Here the only fun I have at uni is the “from gothic litterature to the Roman Noir class”… v_v’
LOL! Human Sexuality! It was impossible to get in to that course, it was full right away……How strange! Horny college kids.
Beet,
You are the master of everything you do.
There is a street near where I work called “Manslick”. I’m sure you could do better than that, Beet.
My friend’s older sister had a language tape for Klingon. I used to be able to say all sorts of fascinating things.
And yes, I’m eagerly anticipating Star Trek Online. You can create YOUR OWN ALIEN RACE.
Beet, I was once the person who got to create street names for my company’s new subdivisions. It was fun but sometimes frustrating when the City would turn down the name because it was too much like another street name (for 911 purposes). So I once named a street Havitur Way – Have It Your Way – and it went thru. lol