It was a sofa. A nice, big sofa. With a table i-n front. And a stereo.

No monitor to be seen.

But a free space, at the very least.

They could start to unpack the food.

One linguist, d'Armond Speers, decided to make an experiment out of his son and speak to him during the first years of his life using nothing but the invented Star Trek language, Klingon. Speers' goal was to see if his son Alec would adopt Klingon as a first language alongside English. Everyone else--Alec's mother (who was 100% on board with it), other family members, people at the daycare center, etc.--spoke to Alec using English.

By the time he was a toddler, Alec did understand Klingon, but he barely spoke it, preferring to use English since everyone else besides his father spoke English (and because he knew his father could speak English, too). As an adult, Alec says he does not speak Klingon at all (x).

Speers claims raising Alec this way is just as beneficial as any other bilingual upbringing. Peoples' responses are varied; some accuse Speers of child abuse, and some think more experiments like this one should be conducted.

Personally, I would have been more accepting of the experiment if Speers hadn't been using a constructed language. I know that kind of eliminates the entire point of the project, but c'mon, if you're going to subject your child to an experiment where he is unable to say whether or not he wants to participate, at least get him to learn a language that could be more useful for him.