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Here's a great Slate article on the origins of the Klingon language, in honor of the opening of the new Star Trek movie this week. What's interesting is how the language evolved. The first few words came from overdubbing some English lines and having to match the movement of the actors' lips with the created Klingon words. From there, the language was mostly created by a single linguist so that it worked like a real language, but with the militaristic and guttural quality of the Klingons as depicted in the Star Trek world. You can even display Google's home page in Klingon if you wish. (Google>Preferences>Interface Language). But here's a trivia question for you: what other prime time television show featured a speech in Klingon to play a joke on one of the characters? Give up? Here's the answer.