tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Sep 15 09:01:53 2004
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Re: Frasier SoQ
In a message dated 2004-09-15 11:46:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
> Think about it: Actor Kelsey Grammer isn't a Klingonist and wouldn't
> understand official spelling, so Okrand provided a phonetic transcription
> instead which the writers copied into the script. The closed captions were
> probably taken directly from the script.
Oh. Grammer obviously is no Klingonist, but I think he would have done well
enough with official spelling, considering how well he read the phonetic
transcription. Apparently nobody told him to read it *as if it were English*,
because he read that transcription phonetically and accurately.
I didn't realize that the closed captions might be taken from the script, or
that the phonetic transcription would be incorporated into the script. That
means there was probably *never* an official spelling of the lines. As soon as
MO came up with the text it went straight into phonetic transcription
(although you can't get much more phonetic than official spelling).
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