klingon_story1-6  Exercise 3: Alec Speers
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What happened: d'Armond Speers raised his son Alec to speak Klingon. Alec's
pronunciation was "excellent", but after his fifth birthday he stopped
answering in Klingon, and his father switched to English.

What it shows: a child can pick up the sounds and some of the language.
What it does not show: that Klingon cannot be a first language in principle.
One family's experience is not a test of the whole language. The chapter
notes that the vocabulary was narrow for everyday life, which is part of the
story but not the only possible reason.