Re: Star Trek langs

dirk elzinga wrote:
>
> 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 :-).
Hee hee. True, too.

As I understand it, too, there is no canonical Vulcan language, although
some fans have made up their own. The Vulcan in the movies would
probably just be gibberish of some sort, just like Klingon was before it
was made into a full language.

--
Robert