Re: Star Trek langs

On Wed, 23 May 2001, Dan Seriff wrote:

> I watched Wrath of Khan yesterday, and towards the beginning there's a
> brief exchange in Vulcan between Spock and Saavik. I was completely
> unaware that there was any Vulcan language actually used, and I can't
> find any info about it. Does anyone know anything about Vulcan?
As I recall, the actors simply said their lines in English, and
then nonce dialogue was dubbed in which would mimic the actors'
visible articulations.

AFAIK, there is no canonical Vulcan language, but I suspect it
would be very much like Lojban :-).

Dirk

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Dirk Elzinga                          dirk.elzinga@m.cc.utah.edu

"The strong craving for a simple formula
has been the undoing of linguists."               - Edward Sapir

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