Welsh speakers may be from another galaxy. Computer expert Alex Greene of Wrexham, one of a select group of people who can speak Klingon fluently, said: “I do believe that if you can speak Welsh, you have an advantage where Klingon is concerned as some sounds are similar such as ‘ll’ and ‘ch’.”
Alex began learning the language in 1986 and took a year to master its intricacies.He added: “Star Trek is one of my hobbies. My other hobby is languages “I have always enjoyed foreign languages, listening to them and communicating with them. Up to 1986 it had been French, Japanese and Esperanto. Then a trained linguist came up with an actual working grammar for the Klingon language for one of the Star Trek movies. It was designed so that actors could easily learn a couple of lines for a script. But later a Klingon dictionary was published. I picked up a copy and learned Klingon as a fun challenge.”
Now recognised as one of the world’s foremost experts on the language Alex teaches Klingon to others. To which we can only add "naDevvo' yIghoS".
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