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Re: ST5 transcript (was RE: KLBC: best & worst)



Does anyone else want to try this? Your Klingon doesn't have to be perfect,
> you just need to have copies of the films, a good set of ears and
(ideally) 
> a good stereo sound system. The first step is to transcribe what we hear,
> then try to figure out what the actors were trying to say. Too many of us
> here have done this backwards: we read the subtitle, mentally
> back-translate the words, then listen to the Klingon line. Result: we
often
> hear what we expect to hear. I'm not saying I haven't done this myself,
but
> just last month I painstakingly re-transcribed ST3, ST5 and ST6 so
they're
> fresh in my mind. 
> 
> Let me know if you want to do this and I'll post my version of the
> transcript to get the text into everyone's e-mailer as a starting point.
> 

Sure, I'm game.

SuSvaj

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