Re: Star Trek langs
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 23, 2001, 18:02 |
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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?
In one of the _Best of Star Trek_ essay/whatever collections, someone did
what looked like a phonological analysis (I'm sorry; I read it in like
8th grade, when I didn't know what phonology really *was*) and came to
the conclusion that the sounds or structure or whatever didn't match with
Vulcan, but either matched with *Romulan* or Romulan was the most
"logical" choice of a common language, given Saavik's background.
YHL