Re: Atlantean Corpus

"jesse stephen bangs" <jaspax@...>

> Is this an actual quote from the movie?  Because it's complete nonsense,
> but beautiful, linguistic nonsense.
I laughed when I heard it. :-)  It's taken from the Illustrated Script,
which I imagine is close to the actual movie, though it says it was
abridged, and when I've seen scripts in the past, they're never 100%
accurate to the actual movie, but more like 98%.


> I was vaguely offended by it's
> absurdity, but then I decided that I'd rather have kids hearing this than
> the tachyon-antiparticle gibberish that they'll get in other scifis.
The movie has been good to get my kids interested in language stuff again.
I've downloaded the Atlantean font and written them secret messages (in
English) that they have to puzzle out.  Fun.


> Are the transcriptions yours or the directors?  Because there were some
> near identical phrases that could be easily explained if you allow for
> minor variations in the transcription.
The transcriptions are from the script.  I may have made a few typos -- I
double-checked everything, but it should be checked by someone other than
me.  It's hard to be 100% accurate typing up an invented language.

GAH-moak,

Jeffrey