Re: CHAT: Rugxa Nano
| From: | Matthew Pearson <matthew.pearson@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 30, 2001, 22:54 |
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--- You wrote:
Matthew Pearson wrote:
> . . . one of the main characters, Arnold Rimmer, has been studying
> Esperanto for eight years and still can speak a word of it.
Not quite true ...
> He attempts to say "Your father looks like a water buffalo's behind
> and your mother spent most of your childhood between walls and
> sailors", but it comes out "Please send for the hotel porter, there
> seems to be a frog in my bidet".
... he says it quite well. ("Bonvolu alsendi la pordiston: lawsxajne
estas rano en mia bideo. And I think we all know what THAT means.")
Which episode is that?
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I don't remember, but it's from early in the first season. (I'm a "Red Dwarf"
novice, actually. Just started watching all the old episodes on video, in as
close to chronological order as I can manage...)
It's true that Rimmer's pronunciation is pretty good, but he's clearly been
memorizing sentences from an Esperanto phrasebook and can't remember which
phrase means what. Quite a funny scene...
Matt.
Matthew Pearson
Department of Linguistics
Reed College
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Portland, OR 97202
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