English as a Second Language

Is this taking the whole Star Trek thing a teensie weensie bit too far? d'Armond Speers spoke only Klingon to his child for the first three years of its 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," Speers told the Minnesota Daily. "He was definitely starting to learn it."

- Excerpted from: CityPages

The dad got a Ph.D. in computational linguistics. Somehow that doesn't surprise me much - either the "computational" or the "linguistics" part.

A much longer version of the story is also available - it dates back more than 10 years.