Re: CHAT: enterprise

--- Roger Mills wrote:
><< But recall Matt Pearson's problem a few months back
with the producers of the Blade sequel..... >>
>
>    I must have been asleep during those months; I remember nothing of
this.
>What happened?  Was there a language in it?  I never saw the movie.

Indeed you must have been.  Summary:  Matt sent a post describing how he'd
been approached to create more Vampire conlang for the sequel-- Prof.
Victoria Fromkin of UCLA had devised the lang. for #1 (which has been airing
with some frequency on TNT or USA or one of the other movie channels.  Stars
Wesley Snipes.  Gory, but quite interesting actually). But she has since
passed away, and no notes etc. could be found.   He asked the producers for
X amount of dollars, and they lost interest immediately.....  He wondered if
he'd asked too much, and the consensus was that he had not.  There ensued a
considerable thread about Version 1 of the Blade Vampire language.  Check
the Brown archive; it may not be in the Yahoo one.
--- end of quote ---

Roger's summary just about says it all. I won't reveal how much X amount of dollars
was, since I still feel embarrassed--not to mention disappointed and faintly
disgusted--by the whole experience. Oh well. Hopefully my attempt to raise the
remuniary standards for movie conlanging did not set back the enterprise by
*too* many years... :-)

Matt.

Matt Pearson
Department of Linguistics
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd
Portland, OR 97202 USA
ph:  503-771-1112 (x 7618)