Ever wondered what your favorite website looked in Klingon? Thanks to Bing, Star Trek fans can now experience the web in their favorite fictional language. Microsoft’s search engine added the option to translate pages into Klingon.
On Bing’s Translator feature, you can put in a URL and it translates the web page into Klingon. (Here’s what our site looks like using the Kronos option.)
“Although the new film is coming out soon, this is an idea we were kicking around for awhile,” Bing behavior scientist Matt Wallaert told Mashable earlier this week. “Star Trek has always looked at the future of technology and it is the most widely spoken constructed language, even though only a handful of people are actually fluent.”
Bing got help from Ph. D. Marc Okrand, who helped create the language, and ten die-hard Trekkies who can speak the language fluently. The people behind The Klingon Language Institute also helped out.
According to The Los Angeles Times, the language was created by the late James Doohan, who played Scotty in the original series and films. For 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Doohan began just making up words, but that later evolved into the full language Okrand developed. Okrand also wrote The Klingon Dictionary.
“Recognizing Klingon language on the Bing translator, along with other elements of this partnership, truly underscores the pop culture relevance of the film,” LeeAnne Stables, executive vice president of worldwide marketing partnerships for Paramount, told the LA Times.
Klingon will also be available on the Bing Windows Phone app.
Star Trek Into Darkness, directed by J.J. Abrams, will be showing in theaters tonight. It’s already made $31.7 million in foreign markets.
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