Re: SETI public: Oregon county seeks Klingon interpreter for mental health patients

From: Gary Hoffman (ghoffman_at_spacetech.com)
Date: Sun May 11 2003 - 17:18:23 PDT

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    Simply amazing !

    Gary

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Dr. H. Paul Shuch" <n6tx_at_setileague.org>
    To: "LARRY KLAES" <ljk4@msn.com>; "setipublic" <public@setileague.org>
    Cc: <kli_at_kli.org>
    Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 7:58 PM
    Subject: Re: SETI public: Oregon county seeks Klingon interpreter for mental
    health patients

    > At 05:16 PM 5/11/03 -0400, LARRY KLAES wrote:
    >
    > >The following story appeared in The Globe Online:
    > >Headline: Oregon county seeks Klingon interpreter for mental health
    patients
    >
    > FWIW, I've already passed this on to Dr. Laurence Schoen,
    > exectuive director of the Klingon Language Institute, and a SETI League
    > member. If anyone can find a suitably qualified applicant, he can.
    > As for the broader question of why a mental health patient might
    > need a Klingon language interpreter, I can easily imagine an MPD (multiple
    > personality disorder) patient, one of whose persona is a Klingon. And
    > before you scoff, read Gene Brewer's compelling novel "K-Pax", or see the
    > fairly faithful movie version. Dr. Brewer's character Prot was
    psychically
    > scarred, and had invented a persona (Prot, from the planet K-Pax) to
    > insulate and protect him. Fiction, but in the sense of the patients in
    Dr.
    > Oliver Sachs' books, probably not without a clinical basis.
    >
    >
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