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(The position has since been withdrawn.)<br><br>
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</font><font size=3 color="#990000"><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>
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