Re: Ishtalo grammar sketch
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 20, 2000, 1:15 |
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 01:08:12 +0000, Keith Alasdair Mylchreest
<kam@...> wrote:
>It was "Dances with Wolves" in English too. Funny thing though, in the
>book the native Americans were Comanches, but in the film they all
>spoke Lakota (plains Sioux) - wakan tanka!.
There's an interesting reason for the change -- they needed a large herd of
buffalo, and the largest one available was in South Dakota.
I wonder if the name "Dances with Wolves" would be more manageable in
Comanche? It was certainly a mouthful in Lakota. (In Tirehlat, it would be
"Vesti ke Ghul".)