My Hovercraft is Full of Eels

Recently the Welsh government was asked some serious questions about UFOs and what they intended to do about them and they answered as brilliantly as anyone could possibly imagine: in Klingon.

http://www.newsweek.com/welsh-government-replies-klingon-serious-ufo-questions-353619


There are several things that spring to mind from this exchange:


1. I wasn't aware that there were serious UFO questions. I mean I hold out the possibility of there being such questions, but until they start getting asked seriously by serious people that practice serious personal hygiene and have serious jobs it's hard to fall in line behind the idea. Seriously.


2. I wasn't aware that there were any members of the Welsh government that knew Klingon. It is an astounding thing. Then you begin looking into the Welsh language and you realize maybe this isn't such a stretch after all. Klingon must be easy to learn in comparison. The Welsh probably wake up every day thinking, "I know Welsh! Nothing worse could possibly happen to me for the rest of the day!" eich bod yn croesawu!  (Welsh for you're welcome!).


3. The Welsh have an excellent sense of humor. Who knew? Not Edward I, but then he was busy conquering them.

4. Klingons do NOT have an excellent sense of humor as all trekkies know.  quay'be' (Klingon for you're welcome!).

Now I personally do not know Klingon. Or Welsh. I have not translated either of these two excellent devices of torture into a helpful phrase such as "My Hovercraft is Full of Eels." (Monty Python started it. Don't blame me!). What I know is I can look it up on the internet, which is arguably more handy. Unless you're in Wales. Or a Star Trek convention. Although come to think of it, having the ability to look things up on the internet at such venues is still arguably more handy than knowing either Welsh or Klingon.

I digress, however. The main thing I wish to point out is that this is the first time an official government correspondence has been made in Wales, in Klingon. Frankly I would think that it is the first time an official government correspondence has been made in Klingon anywhere on the planet. This planet.

It gives me hope. I expect next we will be hearing a government official somewhere respond to a line of questioning in Cardassian. The Kardashians don't count. They're Klingons.