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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Jeffrey Kopp
[mailto:jeffreykopp@ATT.NET]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, September 07, 2003 9:42
AM<BR><B>To:</B> CHINOOK@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<BR><B>Subject:</B> Just in
case you missed this...<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>(The position has since been
withdrawn.)<BR><BR><FONT size=3>Sun, May 11, 2003 <IMG height=5
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<BR><BR></FONT><FONT color=#990000 size=3><B>Klingon intepreters
needed<BR><BR></B></FONT><FONT size=3>PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Position
Available: Interpreter, must be fluent in Klingon. <BR><BR>The language
created for the Star Trek TV series and movies is one of about 55 needed by
the office that treats mental health patients in metropolitan Multnomah
County, Ore. <BR><BR>"We have to provide information in all the languages our
clients speak," said Jerry Jelusich, a procurement specialist for the county
Department of Human Services, which serves about 60,000 mental health clients.
<BR><BR>Although created for works of fiction, Klingon was designed to have a
consistent grammar, syntax and vocabulary. <BR><BR>And now Multnomah County
research has found many people - and not just fans - consider it a complete
language. <BR><BR>"There are some cases where we've had mental health patients
where this was all they would speak," said the county's purchasing
administrator, Franna Hathaway. <BR><BR>County officials said that obligates
them to respond with a Klingon-English interpreter, putting the language of
starship Enterprise officer Worf and other Klingon characters on a par with
common languages such as Russian and Vietnamese and less common tongues
including Dari and Tongan. <BR></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>