I worked as an intern for IBM in the early 90's in their National Language Technical Centre in Toronto. I helped edit a book called "National Language Design Guide Volume 2", the National Language Support Reference Manual. We sent preview versions around the world for review before sending the final version to the publishers. Convinced no one would actually look at the data in the hundreds of tables, I slipped "Klingon" into the table of language codes. Only one reviewer spotted it, whose only comment was, next to where I had "Principal Countries or Territories: Channel 9", "channel 22 here".
I honestly planned on removing it before we sent it to the publishers but... if you have a copy of the guide, check out page 72.
Klingon IBM ID: KLI ISO 639: kl Principal Country or Territories: Channel 9 Script: Klingon World Speakers: 550M
Guess I got caught up in how they named all their projects after Star Trek stuff internally...
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I worked as an intern for IBM in the early 90's in their National Language Technical Centre in Toronto. I helped edit a book called "National Language Design Guide Volume 2", the National Language Support Reference Manual. We sent preview versions around the world for review before sending the final version to the publishers. Convinced no one would actually look at the data in the hundreds of tables, I slipped "Klingon" into the table of language codes. Only one reviewer spotted it, whose only comment was, next to where I had "Principal Countries or Territories: Channel 9", "channel 22 here".
I honestly planned on removing it before we sent it to the publishers but... if you have a copy of the guide, check out page 72.
Klingon
IBM ID: KLI
ISO 639: kl
Principal Country or Territories: Channel 9
Script: Klingon
World Speakers: 550M
Guess I got caught up in how they named all their projects after Star Trek stuff internally...