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Re: elvish tidbit

From:J Matthew Pearson <pearson@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 6, 2001, 8:11
Mario Bonassin quoted:

> The dialect and creative language coaches > have the unusual task in the Lord of the Rings of teaching the actors > the Tolkien's Elvish language which has never been spoken before. > They train the actors using phonetics, a one-hundred year-old > science of writing down speech sounds similar to the alphabet we know.
That's gotta be the most adorably inept definition of "phonetics" I've ever seen! :-) Matt.