In the name of science — or is it science fiction? — a professional language expert spoke only Klingon to his newborn son for the first three years of the child’s life:

“I was interested in the question of whether my son, going through his first language acquisition process, would acquire it like any human language,” [d'Armond] Speers told the Minnesota Daily. “He was definitely starting to learn it.”

And get this, Speers says he isn’t really a huge Star Trek fan.

Shoot, you don’t have to be a Trekkie to take a shining to a pretend tongue. In fact, societally, the trend is toward learning fake languages instead of bothering to acquire dying real-life dialects. Less culturally messy that way, I guess.

Furthermore, if this Speers guy isn’t a cunning linguist, I don’t know who is.