When I found out I couldn’t stop laughing (to his face) and now of course I want to go the route of evil and make fun of him. He has a little poster that he made with some Klingon motto on it that he wrote. I asked him what it was and he said “blah blah blah” (that’s his Klingon language) which means “Live long and prosper” or some such hokey in Klingon. I couldn’t tell you exactly what it meant because by then I was laughing too hard. I then see that his choice of reading materials consisted of a Klingon dictionary complete with cassettes and something called “Conversational Klingon.”
I often wondered what he was doing muttering to himself during the day. Now I know. Damn was that funny.
Before anyone tries to call me an insensitive prig, I am trying to get all the laughter out so by the time I actually see him again, I won’t laugh at him to his face again. But damn, that was the funniest thing I saw all day.
Ask to see his lightsaber. Ask if he knows Yoda. Say “Are you one of them Jedi?” in an awed voice. Yes, I know it’s the wrong “Star”, but the StarDorks tend to get offended if you mix them up.
Or, the next time he says something in any conversation, regardless of language, say to the group, “What the Klingon has said is unimportant, and we don’t hear his words.”
Or, call him Aesiron, that’ll fix him!
Say to him, “Growl for me Worf. For old time’s sake.”
Next time you see him, tell him “Hab SoSlI’ Quch!” (roughly phonetic: khab shoshlih khooch --make it as harsh and guttural as you can, and kinda gag on the “kh” sounds). It means “Your mother has a smooth forehead!”
Yes, I looked it up. Even I’m not that much of a geek. Really, I never learned to read Noldorian script…
Has no one mentioned p’taQ yet? C’mon, people… it’s the quintessential Klingon insult! Ha’DIbaH works too.
Or if you want to insult him in English, just call him a Rommie. Anyone with any common sense and taste would be honored to be called a Romulan but since he likes the Klingons, it’s obvious he doesn’t.
This is by far the weirdest thing I’ve seen at least today. A website giving instructions on how to fight like a Klingon, with accompanying full make-up photos, in German no less. What a mad, mad, mad world we live in. Isn’t it great?
Dorkusmalorkusmafia,
As soon as I read your OP, I remembered that you can Google in Klingon. I don’t know the lingo, so I don’t know how useful this is… looks fun, though.
Yes indeed. I find it ironic that if this co-worker were to come across this german bat’leH user (kudos to robgruver for enlightening us on the name ), even though they are an ocean apart, they could speak the true romantic lanugage: Klingon.
Ist das ein bat’leH in Ihren Hosen, oder sind Sie glücklich, mich zu sehen?
Actually, the sad thing about this Klingon-speaking clown is that he taught himself to speak an artificial language that has no native-speaking constituency. He could have taught himself Spanish so that he could improve his employment opportunities and converse with Central American immigrants. He could have taught himself French, which would allow him to travel through a great swath of Africa, the Middle East, and Canada. He could have taught himself Japanese so he could read Basho in the original or Italian so he could enjoy opera without having to focus on the English supertitles over the stage.
There are so many cultures and literary heritages he could have unlocked by learning a real language. Instead, he learned a language that is accessible only to professional linguists and socially dysfunctional geeks.
Knowing that “Noldorian” is a script is about the same. Damn that made me laugh.
), even though they are an ocean apart, they could speak the true romantic lanugage: Klingon.