Stephen Fry performs in a Klingon version of Hamlet

[@erinrising2799]

Fun fact: The line in Star Trek 6 "You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon." was a reference to a crazy theory that a certain group (in 1930s Germany) believed Shakespeare was German.

[@HairyDalek]

You haven’t seen The Sound of Music until you’ve seen it in its original Klingon.

[@DerEchteBold]

Oh wow, very interesting trivia, thanks! Although, considering there are over 500 books about the subject of Shakespeare not actually being Shakespeare (so to speak), there just must be much crazier ones mixed in. Btw, was that line repeated in one of the series? The ones up to the early 2000s I mean, cause I think I remember it and I always wondered what it means but I'm not a big fan of the movies or all the modern stuff, so it's probably not from there.

[@Gruegirl]

It's also because Gene Roddenberry was amused as heck by the idea that the USSR claimed every invention was secretly Soviet (for propaganda purposes), that's why Chekhov constantly claimed everything was Russian.

[@mookins45]

@@DerEchteBold one of the movies has a Klingon General telling Kirk Hamlet's "To be or not to be" is much better in the original Klingon: "Pack ahh, Pack ack."

[@DerEchteBold]

@ Well, that's what they said but I asked if it was picked up in one of the series, as I don't really know the movies that much but I'm familiar with this somehow. Well, nevermind, must've heard it in some clip, I guess.

[@MartinInBC]

I love the way children not only accept the rules of grammar, but insist on their use even when it is NOT correct. My friend's young son introduced me to the concept of 'versing'. This is a synonym for 'opposing'. He would refer to Arsenal versing Manchester United ... it is of course back-derived from hearing Arsenal versus Manchester United, and assuming a present-tense verb. If Arsenal verses Manchester United tonight, Arsenal versed Newcastle last week and will be versing Tottenham next week.

[@nikiTricoteuse]

I think your appearance speaking Klingon IS one you should be proud of. Apart from being an impossibly difficult language, it shows the breadth of your love of words and language and that, no matter how much we love you and no matter how famous you have become, you're still a lovely human who doesn't take themselves too seriously.

[@henbane2247]

I agree he should be proud of it

[@charleshowie2074]

He's an actor and broke character on a number of occasions in front of an audience. I like Stephen Fry, but he did disrespect the performance.

[@nikiTricoteuse]

@charleshowie2074 Oh, OK. Thanks. Not having had the opportunity to see the whole performance l could only judge by the part l saw. I hope his disrespect wasn't intentional and that he didn't spoil it for anyone lucky enough to see it.

[@wendybutler1681]

4 yo son, under the kitchen table and being overtaken by hot magma, "I'm dissapating!". Knowing he would be vaporized but not having that word yet, he chose "dissapating". High school vocab by the time he hit kindergarten. His spelling skills eventually caught up with his vocabulary but I had doubts at times. Talk to your kids in any language you speak. Spark those brain connections that will make their lives so much richer.

[@bonnienichalson5151]

Yes love this comments from a person who was exposed to German 1 next english 2 Quebec french 3 then Alsas French all before the age of 12 years ! :)

[@whalercumming9911]

Stephen Fry is a charming rascal even as a Klingon

[@BobDeGuerre]

Raises eyebrow... Fascinating. Live long & prosper.

[@Sairin13]

Would love to see a Much Ado about Nothing with Klingon Fry starring opposite a Vulcan Emma Thompson and a Borg Hugh Laurie

[@cathygould]

Let David Tenant in there somewhere 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽👍🏽👏🏽👏🏽❣️😊

[@WheatDos]

*Romulan Hugh Laurie

[@citizenbrain8065]

His name.. is Hugh 😂

[@quattro4s]

And a Vulcan Rowan Atkinson...Blackadder in Space

[@davidsingeisen7697]

"I...I don't want to be assimiliated sir. I'm the last of the tiddly-winking leapfroggers from the golden summer of 2366...I'm really not over keen on joining the Collective at all, sir'. "Well...yes, what is it Ensign?" 'Never you fear sirs...I have a cunning plan'.

[@JSTNtheWZRD]

Darmok, man, Darmok! I think we should work towards that (from Darmok) combined with regular English, to make it a dynamic artistic language that would be quite beautiful and poetic - like Basho's travelogs. He stops and does a haiku at the end of a paragraph and it adds so much depth to the paragraph or story. Star Trek has changed the world in so many ways. Something for everyone in it.

[@CrudelyMade]

we have that, to some extent. look into the difference between anglo saxon words and latin words. the anglo saxon words are, to some extent, darmok. the difference is that it has progressed into being a word instead of a short phrase. example: a domicile (latin base) is simply where live/sleep. a home (anglo saxon base) has much more meaning. a home is where the heart is. and consider all the meanings behind that phrase. in darmok, you might say "where the heart is" where in modern english you would say 'home'. the meaning is the same. so.. if you want more darmok, I encourage you to look into anglo saxon language vs latin. :-)

[@sharonkaczorowski8690]

I am 73. The ability to learn languages runs in my family. Sadly I lost it. When in high school all my friends were of Mexican descent. I had a strong East Texas ascent. I am a mix of a number ethnic groups including Chickasaw. That didn’t go over well with the num either. The school had a nun from a well to do,family somewhere on the NE coast of the USA. She was the speech and debate teacher. She kept me after school, degraded me for sounding like a hillbilly, associating with the “lower” raves and classes. She said terrible things about my friends and attempted to make me give them up. By the time she finished cramming me into her version of My Fair Lady from hell, I sounded upper class British. I had become so self conscious and been so abused my ability to learn disappeared. I didn’t tell my parents for a longtime because I thought the nuns comment about Southerners, my accent and my friends would hurt them. Once I did they were furious with both her racism and her class issues and expressed it clearly to the principal. It was a traumatic experience for me. The next year I changed school. It’s funny, I dream in Spanish sometimes.

[@Gzeebo]

"thought" as a past participle of "think" is one of the weird ones that you actually have to be teached.

[@A._is_for]

I sea wut iu deed their😂

[@kurowkarasu]

Being taught and being exposed to words are two different things though. You don't need to be taught irregular past tense, you just need to hear others use it.

[@woolver42]

But it's also not like "thinked" wouldn't be understood. It would be weird and jarring but still unterstood.

[@Hoganply]

@@woolver42 I prefer 'thunk'.

[@RochelleLang]

😆

[@Peter-oh3hc]

Explained what “to reserve” meant to our young daughter. A little while later Gramma arrived and my daughter said “Gramma, we reserved you a seat”. It amazing to see kids do this

[@JibletParade]

It sounds like she had conserved a basis for grammar

[@Peter-oh3hc]

@@JibletParade for a while when something was difficult she said she “did it hardly”. If something is easy you do it easily. If it’s hard you should do it hardly.

[@chrislutz7557]

I want a follow up with the kid who learned Klingon... it'd be interesting to get his perspective on it.

[@Narrowgaugefilms]

I tutored my son in German before he started studying it in college. A fundamental thing I did is give him a solid background in grammar. I didn't pound grammar into him as if he'd never heard it before, but instead I showed him that he already understood it intuitively and all we needed to do was bring it to the surface so he would understand it explicitly.

[@Heather-jd1km]

A friend from Spain lived here in England with her English partner and their child. The little boy was happy speaking English and Spanish. Until that is he went to nursery aged around 3.5 - 4 and realised that other children were not like that. He began refusing to speak Spanish at home and would correct his mum if she didn't speak 'properly'

[@stephanweinberger]

... that's the time for an extended holiday in Spain...

[@bonnienichalson5151]

Poor little kid ! Yes extended trip to Spain:)

[@TheValeyard92]

6:20 d'Armond, when the walls fell.

[@MrBigCookieCrumble]

Haha! Nice reference!

[@DoctorNemmo]

Jeeves, his eyes open !

[@DavidNash1948]

@@DoctorNemmo "Here you are, Sir, your morning Raktajino. A bit too much bloodwine last night, eh?"

[@MlleAdler]

Dear Mr Fry, I have enjoyed your many and varied works over the decades. I wish to draw your attention to something that I had noticed quite a few years ago. In the 1969 film Sweet Charity by Bob Fosse there is a dance number called Rich Man’s Frug. There is a male dancer (on the right during The Aloof)) in a red vest that has , to me, a remarkable resemblance to you as a young man. I just wanted to share this with you, as it makes me smile each time. Both in figure and in attitude, I can never unsee anyone but you dancing here. Sincerely, MlleAdler

[@graziacavasino8884]

The resemblance is indeed remarkable.

[@mike-williams]

I'm sitting in the (guest) room of the house where one of the authors of the Klingon Hamlet stayed for several months (and I think worked on that translation in the 90s).

[@cathygould]

Fry is one of the Most Delightful humans on the Planet 😂😂❣️❣️❣️👍🏽👏🏽👏🏽😘😘

[@scottcates]

Truly

[@bonnienichalson5151]

Totally Agree 👍 WE ARE BLESSED TO HAVE HIS WONDERFUL PRESENTS ON Utube ! THANK YOU STEVEN FRY FOR 🎊🥳👍🇨🇦 SHEARING YOU WONDER WITH US 🍷✨🎊🥳👍💛🎉✒️🥐🍷🎊

[@Deemancer]

Glory to the House Fry!

[@germansnowman]

I’m learning Klingon using Duolingo and the official Klingon-English dictionary. It is very interesting because it is a language with many features that are rather rare in human languages, or very different from Indo-European languages specifically.

[@bchearne]

2:16 being corrected can be instructive if it’s a sort of game, but probably not as effective if it’s punitive. I found it beneficial because my family members weren’t mean about it, and they also took the time to point out why grammar works the way it does in our language

[@moonbeamchaos]

I wish the subtitles were correct. She is Jean Berko Gleason, and the tool is The Wug Test.

[@freyashipley6556]

Marc Okrand should be given celebratory credit here!

[@dankeefer8859]

This video is q'apla! The timing of this video is nuts to me. First of all I love LBP and Star Trek and didn't know you were a Trek fan let alone a huge Klingon fan. I have recently become addicted to writing song lyrics so I can pop them into the magical music slot machine and pull the handle until all the reels line up. One thing that always bugged me about Klingons is that they were so into opera. Klingons would totally be hardcore metalheads. I thought about generating a Klingon metal song but realized it would probably just give me an error message and waste a credit. Instead I'm working on a song about Worf in English. Lol This video made my day. Thank you, Stephen Fry.

[@bonniecarruth8429]

I think Klingons would love Wagner.

[@gaius_enceladus]

"To uncloak or not to uncloak - that is the question........ " :)

[@D-Rv8iv]

I spent a lot of time in church and bible study groups as a kid. I had really good English grades in secondary school. Never could remember grammar rules, I just wrote like the voice in my head spoke, which was an old church elder.

[@KairuHakubi]

I remember around 3rd or 4th grade realizing... I don't have to think about rules. I read books, I know instinctively how language goes.

[@temporaldisplacement]

Well that's is then ...someone needs to write a story about an klingon opera writer and have Paramount cast Stephen in the role.

[@Hin_Håle]

For some reason, Stephen looks rather brutal as a klingon.

[@graziacavasino8884]

I guess that's the flair of the language.

[@Valdagast]

People with specific language impairment don't pass the wug test. They're do as well as anyone on non-linguistic tasks, but they don't get grammar. Fascinating.

[@Yet_Another_Steve]

"In school I learned about zimmers, but 60 years later I confess I've never met one."

[@patryot5668]

I will not leave this planet until Stephen Fry appears in a Star Trek movie as a klingon

[@Ilfrinco]

"and my two year old starting crawling to a bottle" .. fry barely able to contain his mindblowness. "wow" (in perfect klingon)

[@KairuHakubi]

I love how we can tell which Klingon is Stephen because of the crooked nose. Really gives him character ^^

[@CaptainBlaine]

I want to see more of the play!

[@Taricus]

I was expecting the past tense of binging to be bunged 🤭🤣

[@tubekulose]

I'd prefer: to bing, bang, bung

[@Taricus]

@@tubekulose LOL! 😆😆😆

[@Taricus]

@@tubekulose Get away from me tuberculosis.... I'm just now getting over Enza... Y'all trying to break my heart!

[@tubekulose]

@ 😂👍

[@bonnienichalson5151]

Toooo FUNNY !!!👍🎉🎊👍✨🥳

[@WhiteCamry]

I would have paid stupid money to see Shatner and Nimoy as Tevye and Lazar Wolf in the Klingon Theater Production of "Fiddler on the Roof."

[@James_T_Quirk]

Well I know its a old post, but, "Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."

[@stephanweinberger]

Tihs is aslo a good way to ccehk porfcnieicy in fgorein lunagegas! (i.e. how much you think and translate while reading)

[@bonnienichalson5151]

And the People at Cambridge were Rigut !

[@davidrichards6509]

When was this actually "filmed" because I've been waiting 34 YEARS of my life to see this😂😂😂😂😂 Because when Captain Von Trapp dressed up as a Klingon recommends Shakespeare "in the original Klingon" YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST experience that😂😂😂

[@trevormillar1576]

Globally, there are more Klingon speakers than Welsh speakers.

[@ProfDanielVargas]

It is nice to see the dad of Nicky, the kid from Daddy Daycare, is doing well after the divorce.

[@PhineasPhule]

All I can say here is'Qa'pla!' 😁

[@bonnienichalson5151]

Yes 👍

[@jamesrawlins735]

Stephen Fry is a National Treasure in Britain (as anyone who saw that Red Nose Day skit knows)

[@robotparadise]

Ahhh for a second there I thought I heard the narration for hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. Carry on.

[@davidraper5798]

Love that Hamlet. Well done Mr Fry.

[@tssteelx]

MOAR. MOAR, Klingon plays.

[@jtlanci]

It's unconscionable what that guy did to his kid. Obviously you can't raise a healthy child by singing him to sleep with the Klingon Imperial Anthem. Everyone knows that Qoy qeylIs puqloD is the only appropriate Klingon bedtime lullaby. P’takh! How can he join his fathers in the eternal black fleet if he is not properly instructed?

[@myautobiographyafanfic1413]

But he hadn't binged, he'd bung.

[@JamesSimmons-d1t]

Child uses standard past, as only a minority of irregular past morphing. And then choices more difficult.went and was, were and the like rejected automatically But surely thou jest. How to annoy humorously...get serious at a joker. No Trump, 8 billion of a kinds, hands down. Have some rant. and a REply. to "There is nothing more fascinating than 'language. " >>> "Nope. The reality of life and the universe. Linguist background...just lambing, cuz goat tastes awfulled. My rant, si vous permettez bien, ave valeque. "Odi et amo, quare id faciam, fortasse requiris...Nescio, sed fieri sentio, et excrucior". Catullus...iddle gitten in Latin. " Neologistic portmanteaux generating in school was my mode less traveled tp fight against the darkness of that blight. Was in Blighty 1964. Fare you well, wherever you fare, 'til your eyries get beasties, ghosties, bogles, long legged ghoulies. Here comes a bopper to boop you to heath. Portephrases. En Anglais, fontionne aussi bien. Hughie Longer, laurels to all the John Lauries. If Ivan is John in Russian and sounds like 'I want", to be left alone, Garbo misquoted by dropping 'left'...all lefty then, non smokin'....and a john is the bog or WC, and also client or 'mark' of a sex worker....doesn't work pour MOI...what did DimAlt name his dottir? Ivantkaka. Morely, Bobbette, he...It..VantKaka. WEIRDLE. Weakest MISSING Links. It.....because birther certificate says, "Species, genus, phylum and sex, if any, TBDetermined. Cold blooded, cartilaginous spine and spurs, insectoid, reptiloid, or toadoid of toad smell hall....skin sags, borrowed....poor imitation of klown klone, makeup and fright wig." Informal certificate language, Through the Looking Flask, but darkly. And Joyce Grenfelled, Beatrice Lillied and Wendy~~~Darling,....Hillered. Glynis recently bogged, sigh. Joan Greenwooded while back. Maggie Rutherforded, so any moors. peated and bogged, like as grot. Gormlied says, go to way, up it keep, und Jean Piaget experimented on his kids' minds, alzo. "Languages of Pao" science fantasied Whorf Sapirly, by prolific alien culture creator Jack Vance., worth tupPence as well. Prefer Elvish to Klingon. Mellon. " bing bing bong, to quote the 'weaver.' gormless blunger.

[@stevecarter8810]

I over did this with my neurospicy boy. He might say "binged. Bung. Bungen. Bingeded. Bonk. Bingée"

[@davidwright8432]

Thank you! Exactly what I thought. It gets a bit like the Big Ben Chimes - Bing, bang, bung, bong; bong, bong, bong bong ... and so on. Up to 12 of them. Good thing it isn't a 24-hr clock!

[@Q.Q.Kachoo]

⁠@@stevecarter8810Oh my gosh, my sister and I are autistic adults, and we do little word games like this all the time! Our favorite variation is when one of us says something is, for example, “Rubenesque”, and the other will say “Rubenian. Ruben-like. Ruben Style. A la Rubén” 😂 I’m 39 and my sister is 41, please tell your boy that your description of him put a smile on my face, and I wish y’all the best. ❤

[@candicabaniss2560]

I need to teach my grandchildren the Klingon anthem. I already taught one grandson the Godzilla song. he would sing it at preschool.

[@benruniko]

As a casual conlanger and convicted linguaphile i am definitely amused and fascinated by language

[@Marianne-k4u]

I had the exact experience with speaking polish to my baby cause he had polish grandparents and family and although I was danish I spoke it fluently. He actually directly asked me to stop speaking to him in polish. And he lost the language altogether.

[@OldtricksForolddog]

Fry has list all credibility

[@tracymurray6840]

I would love to see Stephen learn the Simlish language from the Sims.

[@gargoyleb]

Proof that all that Peruvian Marching Powder really did do something to Sir Fry's brain.

[@JSTNtheWZRD]

That Twila is very intelligent

[@charleshagen1143]

We need a follow up to the story of the child whose primary language was Klingon.

[@richardvinsen2385]

I wonder how that impacted the child’s development. I’m sure the majority of the people around the child didn’t speak Klingon so did they not speak to him at all?

[@germansnowman]

He refused to use it after a while since only his parents were communicating to him in Klingon.

[@krysab6125]

​@richardvinsen2385 Probably didn't cause much of a problem. As long as a kid is engaged with using a language - ANY language - in their earliest years, it'll support future learning. Kids in that wonderful window of language acquisition will happily pick up a second language really quickly, supported by their inherent knowledge of grammar (the 'wugs' test earlier). I come from a diaspora family of linguists, and you'd never know that my Dad had never spoken a word of English before he started school. The human brain is incredible

[@heathertaylor-nicholson9387]

Well done on the Klingon there Stephen! But it is true that a language can die if not used as part of everyday conversation or as a working language. Down my way, Cornish has pretty much disappeared despite attempts to revive it (it's very similar to Welsh, being a Celtic langauge in origin), apart from some street names, and in Penzance at our train station where the words 'Penzance welcomes you' and in Cornish 'Pensans a'gas dynergh' is written on a large stone by the entrance.

[@georgemanka]

We are in a world of Klingons now.

[@trueaussie9230]

There is nothing more fascinating than 'language'.

[@JamesSimmons-d1t]

Nope. The reality of life and the universe. Linguist background...just lambing, cuz goat tastes awfulled. My rant, si vous permettez bien, ave valeque. "Odi et amo, quare id faciam, fortasse requiris...Nescio, sed fieri sentio, et excrucior". Catullus...iddle gitten in Latin. " Neologistic portmanteaux generating in school was my mode less traveled tp fight against the darkness of that blight. Was in Blighty 1964. Fare you well, wherever you fare, 'til your eyries get beasties, ghosties, bogles, long legged ghoulies. Here comes a bopper to boop you to heath. Portephrases. En Anglais, fontionne aussi bien. Hughie Longer, laurels to all the John Lauries. If Ivan is John in Russian and sounds like 'I want", to be left alone, Garbo misquoted by dropping 'left'...all lefty then, non smokin'....and a john is the bog or WC, and also client or 'mark' of a sex worker....doesn't work pour MOI...what did DimAlt name his dottir? Ivantkaka. Morely, Bobbette, he...It..VantKaka. WEIRDLE. Weakest MISSING Links. It.....because birther certificate says, "Species, genus, phylum and sex, if any, TBDetermined. Cold blooded, cartilaginous spine and spurs, insectoid, reptiloid, or toadoid of toad smell hall....skin sags, borrowed....poor imitation of klown klone, makeup and fright wig." Informal certificate language, Through the Looking Flask, but darkly. And Joyce Grenfelled, Beatrice Lillied and Wendy~~~Darling,....Hillered. Glynis recently bogged, sigh. Joan Greenwooded while back. Maggie Rutherforded, so any moors. peated and bogged, like as grot. Gormlied says, go to way, up it keep, und Jean Piaget experimented on his kids' minds, alzo. "Languages of Pao" science fantasied Whorf Sapirly, by prolific alien culture creator Jack Vance., worth tupPence as well. Prefer Elvish to Klingon. Mellon.

[@skypiratecaptain]

I think the past tense of bing is bung. And I can’t believe she said zibber with the hard r

[@tobybartels8426]

Today I bing, yesterday I bang, earlier I had bung.

[@PiggyFuktoy]

And, talking to your dog as if a child, also increases their understanding

[@mchelvantx]

I grew up hearing correct grammar and reading correct grammar. People don't like to be corrected.

[@bonnienichalson5151]

I dislike hearing any language spoken badly ! Was taught to respect the word !

[@jamesbaker8831]

The word is 'wug' not 'wag'. As a northerner I automatically put the u sound into a northern accent

[@SteelDragon1986-i8k]

Now this is gold

[@JSTNtheWZRD]

Twila. Never met anyone named Twila. Must be the new Justin. Nobody had my name in the U.S., and to meet one was rare. There was one other in my high-school, which was a giant high school considered one of the best in the U.S. and very diverse but only two Justins. He was my age too. I met one other ice skating when I was a kid, he was younger. My father saw the name on a kids soccer jersey and liked it is where it came from, so I've been told. I'm 41. After me, there were many Justins. People liked the name and it spread like wildfire. In England it is a common name, but not like John. My Dad's name was John, and there are millions of Johns. Which was some name out of the desert in the East. With Christianity spread and is still used just as much everywhere. I changed my name recently to Yisrael, which is a very common name in other places. My advice to parents is to choose or even make up a name that nobody has, if not to confuse the heck out of the DMV people. Everyone in the band, the sex pistols was named John in real life. Like, yell John on a busy new york street and watch how many people turn around. Not so many Talulabells, is there? Or Trixie. Go to Eastern Europe or Russia and yell Vladamir, its like John. Not so many Hagars or didn't Hortence used to be a big one. Hahaha I just kind of ran with this comment hahaha 😊

[@ZiddersRooFurry]

Justin wasn't very common where I grew up in Rhode Island. I was a child of the 80's, and I've only known one person irl who had that name. I knew about it primarily because of Justin from The Secret of NIMH.

[@bonnienichalson5151]

My name is Bonnie only met 3 people with that name on 2 continent! Never been to Ireland or Scotland!

[@northerncassowary8567]

Today, we verb!

[@davidbandler]

6:30 Lingua franca; our brains are wired to preference the language it hears the most, just as most of us preference our right hands and would all use tools the same. Only if a language were heard equally would it be retained as native polylingualism. This is why, often, children of immigrant parents might retain understanding of the parent-language but cannot speak it themselves.

[@GenericTurtle]

That's not what lingua Franca means. Lingua Franca is a common language used by those who do not share a native language. It is so called because of the use of French around Europe for centuries. Before French it was Latin in Europe, or Greek (depending on where you were). English is the modern Lingua Franca

[@ayejayuu49]

Kid obviously smarter than parent

[@salty-walt]

What joy!

[@iahelcathartesaura3887]

This! What a great idea!

[@bustedfender]

1:12 FOUR layers, Stephen? You won’t feel the benefit if you go outside.

[@nsnopper]

4:12 I’m not sure I approve of this fellow experimenting with his child that way - teaching the child Klingon as a first language.

[@maestromecanico597]

That guy getting dressed isn’t really going to beam down wearing that, right?

[@craigschaffert]

1:30 I don't know if I can say it tho 😅

[@WreckItRolfe]

Clearly he'd be a zibman, zibba.

[@curtisbme]

@4:05 - Is a level 4 below a stage 5 Klinger?

[@Vtarngpb]

Wait, is this Panto…

[@andrewalderman9489]

Okay, the boy in the back is going "huh" ?

[@matthewhollingshead8618]

I am also interested in the kid whose first language is Klingon, but it worries me how he was able to communicate with anyone once he mixed with other children & adults.

[@doomjuan4892]

Modern parenting is trash.

[@1streetmagic]

Really Stephen??? I think you suit the uniform

[@locutus155]

You know, it would be an interesting idea to do Pink Floyd The Wall in Klingon.

[@spmoran4703]

A very interesting documentary.

[@calonmusician]

It's funny, in Klingon there's lots of guttural noises found in Welsh, so I wonder if these Klingon speakers would be able to learn Welsh easier (pronunciation wise, word wise....maybe it'll take a bit longer haha)

[@tm502010]

What is interesting about this is how grammar and language ultimately get so impressed, sometimes in negative ways, so much that they limit and marginalize. A classic US example is the different grammar and speech patterns used by many Black Americans - even highly educated and aware citizens - that come across as uneducated or flat out wrong. Variants of Ebonics that are passed off as mainstream use of English… when it’s just not true. Very weird in Academia: when someone with several graduate degrees, or even a Ph.D, comes in for an interview, or a professional presentation, and speaks in ways that would not pass muster in a third or fourth grade English class. See it frequently, but don’t have any insight on how to make it better. It’s like cultural limiting patterns that get passed down through generations… Not sure such people even know or care that they are grossly abusing the common language.

[@bonnienichalson5151]

Sad to hear

[@kurtwinter4422]

Qa'Pla!

[@soul0360]

The adults at daycare, probably hated those parents. But I hope, that he treated it, like a proper experiment, and published the data somewhere. Including his kids long term development. The anecdotes are fun. But data could be useful to scientists.

[@Skadoniz]

1:21 he would be the zibbler

[@cannot-handle-handles]

One wug, two wiggen.

[@soweli_Lukonsi]

One wug, du vaŭgoj

[@SusanMarg]

1 sheep, two sheeps. 1 wug, 2 wugs👍

[@Original50]

Multilingualism is easy.

[@Kreated_by_khaos]

i guess i was lucky kinda , my parents devot swingers we had all sorts at my house at a young age , i hear diffrent talk slang diffnet lauganges i hear all sorts , and yes even nerd talk , which i guess explains the huge nerd i am today

[@akaCol1987]

Klingon is not a language we should cling onto.

[@solertree8653]

nooooo!

[@kleinjahr]

For that you deserve a punishment.

[@frankt.morgan5538]

But it can be so much fun as a tool to encrypt private conversations! Can’t it? Don’t forget not to chuck out the “baby with the bathwater”.

[@PHDWhom]

Said like a follower of the p'takhs Ursa and B'etor.

[@shagrat47]

tlhIngan Hol... nIteb maHtaHbe' 😇

[@charleshagen1143]

Sorry kid, yesterday he Bunged.

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

I think you mean he bang.

[@stewartmcminn7773]

whats baaah in klingon

[@I_goch]

I wonder how that klingon kid is doing now....

[@SuStel]

He turned out just fine, though he doesn't remember any Klingon.

[@davidwright8432]

I wouldn't be surprised if he read a bio of Chingis Khan, and was riding small horses across the Mongolian steppe ... Sword in hand.

[@I_goch]

Bat'leth in hand* ​@@davidwright8432

[@kentvesser9484]

He's doing 10 to 20 at Dartmoor for holding up a liquor store with a Bat'leth after they told him they did not carry Klingon Blood Wine.

[@TheReynoldsTruth]

Oh, but if he’d have taught his child Spanish, or French, or anything else. But he taught the child Klingon. So… there’s that.

[@tomwesley1170]

Like a science experiment lmao

[@gariko]

And what exactly is the child saying at the start of the video? Can't brush right now because you're... what?

[@LWJCarroll]

Hello Stephen, why do babies get jokes and laugh before they can speak? Perhaps an insight into what you do? Also the Solomon Islands people have about 150 distinct languages, when living there as a kid in 1968-70 (UK Protectorate ) we were told about 120. One village didnt understand another. I have since learned from a booklet by a RC priest that being caught outside your own village was regarded as normally fatal and to be cannibalised! He also backed up the multiple languages. What we learned as Pidgin English was in fact a go between for all the distinct languages there. I thought it may be of interest. If you do decide to visit be aware the very anti LGBTQ laws imported and over riding the normal tolerance I saw as a kid. Regards. Laurie. NZ 😊

[@daniellamcgee4251]

In answer to your first question, babies, as with all language learners, understand much more than they can speak. Comprehension develops a long way ahead of speech. Meaningful speech requires comprehension and a lot of listening and co-ordination to mimic the sounds of words. Also, some jokes don't require words. For example, Mr. Bean is barely coherent, but people all over the world understand the comedy. Intent is expressed through expressions, movement, gestures, tone, pitch and volume of voice, not just the meaning of words. Psychological studies have shown that specific words are not as important to people as these other ways meaning is conveyed. Babies typically like anticipation and surprises, so sudden words, or sounds, can be funny. Some babies find certain words funny. My 18 month old heard his grandmother say 'eyeball' and found it hilarious. Every time she rang she would say 'eyeball' for him and he would literally fall about laughing. He enjoyed saying 'eyeball' himself and would laugh again. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Very interesting, but also sad about the introduced intolerance of LGBT+ people. I hope Stephen Fry reads your comment! 😊

[@daniellamcgee4251]

I forgot to say that I studied child development, including language acquisition, at uni, so that's where my info. is from. 😊

[@wendybutler1681]

There are a few linguistic errors that have been bugging me lately. Whenever used when when is proper. Whenever has a different meaning than when. Cool, calm and collective. Makes no sense whatsoever. It's cool, calm and COLLECTED. As in "let me collect myself". I also despise the term baby bump but that's a whole 'nother thing.

[@bloodlinefilms]

i despise use and placement of “anymore”. the way it is right to me is as a tool to highlight a lack or a change over time. “they dont do that anymore” “you cant get that anymore” why dont i like this anymore?” but people use it like “how are things anymore?” “how are you doing anymore?” “they do that too much anymore” its used the same as “these days” but only sounds correct as i said in the negative implying a lack of or change. “its too damn cold anymore” wrong. “its too damn cold these days” what they meant “its too damn cold. its never mild anymore. always colder and colder” how it could be used. i think its regional but it crosses my wires all wrong

[@ericdpeerik3928]

00:40 in and we're on "they're wogs". Oh no, we're teaching the Americans now? 😂

[@martingregson7136]

Ooo, what about Anglish?

[@FenceThis]

they basically speak it in Denmark

[@johningham1880]

A brace of wug