speers in A Sentence

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    People like Speers do their best.

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    Speers: Could it be the Government's plan is working?

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    In any event, unlike his wife, Speers almost exclusively spoke to Alec in Klingon.

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    Speers stated,“One time I dressed up[as a Klingon] it horrified[Alec], so I have never done it again.”.

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    As everyone else spoke English, Speers stated when Alec was about three years old,“He stopped listening to me when I spoke in Klingon.

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    The first Klingon word Alec picked up was“HIVje”, meaning“vessel”, which is the closest approximation to“bottle” the Klingon language had at the time, so what Speers used.

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    Despite certain people being aghast that a father would do this, thinking it perhaps detrimental to a child, Speers, being a language expert, had a different view on it.

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    This experiment went on for about three years, during which time, as you might imagine, Speers was given a lot of funny looks in public as he would converse with Alec.

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    Speers was also the only person who would speak Klingon to Alec and the boy never saw Star Trek during this experiment, so didn't ever see anyone but his father speaking it.

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    So as not to cause Alec to have potential learning disabilities and to make sure his son could fully integrate into society without language problems, Speers' wife, who was fully behind Speers' experiment, always spoke English to the child.

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    At first when people would ask what language he was speaking, Speers would respond,“speaking Klingon”, but after getting a lot of dirty looks and comments for this, he switched to just saying,“speaking a constructed language”, which generally would forestall potential negative remarks.

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    Despite the limitation of the language, Speers claimed,“I have been able to say almost everything I have needed to say to Alec in Klingon… One of the reasons I find the Klingon language so interesting is that because the vocabulary and grammar is so limited, you really have to think to figure out how you're going to say something.”.

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