Re: orthography and pronunciation

En réponse à David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>:

>
>     Everyone has a universal translator implanted in their brain, so it
> doesn't matter what language they speak.  They can also turn it off and
> on at
> will, so that, for instance, they can say a Klingon word and it comes
> out as
> Klingon to whoever's listening, as opposed to being decoded by the
> universal
> translator.  I thought everyone knew that...
>
The (in)famous implausible translator, which makes people speak the language of
the hearer even with the correct lip-moving :), which can translate even
languages it never heard before (though I remember an episode of DS9 where it
took a while to translate the language of unknown people who passed by the
wormhole), and which allows people to talk to each other even when only one of
them bears that device (see the episode where Quark, his brother and his nephew
come back in time by accident and land in Roswell :) ). If anyone is able to
explain me how it really works, especially in that last case...

Christophe.

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