tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Apr 17 10:08:10 2002
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Re: Alphabet/ new(old) klingon
At 09:14 2002-04-17 -0400, you wrote:
>This is what we refer to as /par Hol/ (short for Paramount Hol)
On a similarly gripey note: every so often, one of the series needs people
who speak an alien language that's not autotranslated into
English. Example: a few weeks back, the Menk:
http://www.startrek.com/library/ent_episodes/episodes_ent_detail_122511.asp
So a writer or whoever goes and makes up some lines of not-English for the
aliens to speak, fine, but then they cast apparently monolingual Americans,
who then enunciate the not-English with perfect American vowels. (Almost
as bad as the time I took Swahili with a bunch of people with thick
Southern accents. Fine vowels for English, but carried over into Swahili,
it was like nails on chalkboard.)
Since Paramount casts and shoots the Star Trek series in L.A., you think
they could manage to scare up some people there who would could do
non-English phonetics, so that not every bit of Alienese will sound like
Berlitz in space. One is tempted to use the word "sloppy" in such cases.
But then, it's free television, and you get what you pay for.
--
Sean M. Burke http://www.spinn.net/~sburke/