youbroughtheryouRiker 2 Posted February 22, 2009 (edited) From Sunday's comics, the You Can section with Beakman And Jax, someone asked why Earth is called Earth. In addition to the answer, they talked a little about the evolution of languages. And they added these couple paragraphs as well. But two languages on Earth were invented on purpose. The first is Esperanto, which was supposed to be the international language. Earth in Esperanto is Tero. Esperanto was a huge flop and is spoken today only by a handful of kooks. The other on-purpose language is Klingon, spoken by Star Trek enthusiasts. Earth in Klingon is Tera or Yav. Today more people speak Klingon than Esperanto. Edited February 22, 2009 by youbroughtheryouRiker Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Takara_Soong 4 Posted February 22, 2009 That's funny. Thanks for sharing that. It was kinda nice that the ones who were labelled "kooks" weren't Trek fans for a change. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voyager recruit 0 Posted February 23, 2009 I recently heard some sort of refernce to the language of our Klingon brothers(and sisters) on tv, it may have been as above,in a real-world context, though not the specific instance. I always get a kick out of such things. And, for those who criticize, in the non-trek world, well, since when did we Trek fans allow 'others' to tell us what we can like, or how, eh? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
