Klingonian
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Klingonian (comparative more Klingonian, superlative most Klingonian)
- Pertaining to, or characteristic of, Klingons.
- Synonyms: Klingonesque, Klingonish
- 1979 December 19, Darrell Schweitzer, “Letters”, in Richard E. Geis, editor, Science Fiction Review, volume 9, number 2 (whole 35), published May 1980, →ISSN, page 51:
- They will be beamed aboard the Enterprise, all the women (and some of the older men) into the arms of Mr. Spock, who has a Long Reach. Those who claim he cannot embrace them all at once are spreading the Klingonian Heresy, and will be Dealt With Severely by our Shlocktroops ... er ... Spocktroops.
- 2002 September 26, Vivian B. Martin, “What Is Bush, A Klingon Rip Van Winkle?”, in Hartford Courant, volume CLXIV, number 269, page A19:
- The Bush administration’s newly declared “pre-emptive action” policy, which calls for the United States to strike at threats before they fully emerge, is somewhat Klingonian in an era where more elevated peace-making approaches are needed.
- 2021, Paul A. Gagniuc, Algorithms in Bioinformatics: Theory and Implementation, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 437:
- In these military exercises, one team from each communist country from the Warsaw Pact participated in this competition for ground-to-air missile launches (among many types of military exercises) and the winners would have brought the communist glory (aka the Klingonian empire) for one year to the communist country they came from.
- Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Klingon language.
- 2000, Ellipse, Université de Sherbrooke, page 42:
- Anyway, German has the highest percentage of foreign literature in translation (taking over the lead from Russian), and although Canadian authors have indeed at high reputation among readers, US-American and British books (as well as French, Swedish, Israeli and Klingonian ones) also get a fair chance at the German reading public’s interest.
- 2005, The Broken Mirror: Portrait of the Self, Langgeng Gallery, page 115:
- ‘Manga’. No matter how Klingonian this sounds to you, it has been a worldwidely-known word since 1990.
- 2009, Francesco Fullone, Francesco Trucchia, eZ Publish 4: Enterprise Web Sites Step-by-Step, Packt Publishing, →ISBN:
- As an example, if we need to create a Klingonian locale file based on English language, we have to open a shell to create the new file in this way: / # cp share/locale/eng-GB.ini / share/locale/kln-KL.ini
- 2018, Jeff Pearlman, “Title Dreams”, in Football for a Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 94:
- As was the case with his father, words from Bobby Junior’s mouth appeared to be spoken in some far-removed Klingonian dialect.
- 2019, Paul Werner, The Last Voyage of the Yankee Seas, TWENTYSIX, →ISBN, page 59:
- “Don’t you remember me? I’m the passenger in the taxi which almost knocked you down last night,” Laura addressed her in what she liked to call “Scandinavian”, a concoction of Swedish and Danish, that is, she had learned to get by with in most Scandinavian countries except Finland, of course. Helle’s face lit up with an expression of recognition. She groped in her coat pocket and pulled out Laura’s “Klingonian” address. Laura nodded.
- 2020, Stefano Predelli, “Cat’s Cradle: Peripheral Importations”, in Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, section 5 (Fictional Languages), pages 82–83:
- Yet, somehow, today there is a quasi-official Klingon language institute, people who speak Klingon almost exclusively, and alleged cases of persons who want to raise their children in Klingon-speaking households. (Ludlow 2006: 162–3) […] Klingon may fictionally have begun its existence among fictional extra-terrestrials, and actual households may communicate in an actual language that has all the characteristic Klingonian flair, but that is nevertheless not Klingon.