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Sep 8, 2020, 8 tweets

Happy #StarTrekDay! 🖖🏼🖖🏼🖖🏼

Here are our top #StarTrek #language and #communication fun facts 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

#StarTrek #language and #communication fun fact:

#Klingon is an object-verb-subject language (instead of "Klingons cherish their honor" >>> "Their honor cherish Klingons")

#StarTrek #language and #communication fun fact:

"The #UniversalTranslator could never work. Discuss." makes a great essay topic for #Linguistics 101 students.

#StarTrek #language and #communication fun fact:

A #UniversalTranslator would be just as cool as beaming. Imagine everyone speaks their language and it all sounds like English to you ...

#StarTrek #language and #communication fun fact:

#Klingon even has its own script

#StarTrek #language and #communication fun fact:

#Klingon is one of 26 #languages on the Gauss-Weber telegraphic memorial @uniGoettingen

#StarTrek #language and #communication fun fact question:

What is the correct term for a StarTrek fan?

To discover more #StarTrek #language and #communication fun facts listen to @wendy_harmer @robbie_buck and Prof Ingrid Piller @MQLinguistics celebrate #StarTrekDay on @abcsydney (starts at 1:12:40)

abc.net.au/radio/sydney/p…

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