Re: Conlanging in the news

On 4/19/05, Thomas Wier <trwier@...> wrote: 
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> Hi all. Conlanging in the news again... don't think
> I've ever seen anything by Wolf Wikeley before.
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/19/arts/19lang.html
  I found a rather interesting comment about it on bioware's forum for this 
game:
 "It's a lot like the "alien" languages in KOTOR, Klingon in Star Trek, and 
Elvish in LOTR: awful. Your voice actors would be more animated if you just 
let clay ooze out of their mouths."
 Boy, there's no pleasing some people!


"This seems like one of those bizarre scenarios which result when PC 
intentions backfire. It's like you wanted to appease Asian-American interest 
groups by avoiding any "racist" voiceovers (which is not such a bad thing 
considering all the yellowface voice acting in games), but what resulted is 
an Asian-themed world with a complete absence of Asians. It's like you can 
expropriate the culture, but want nothing to do with the people."
 So, I guess I want nothing to do with South East Asians since my Saalangal 
don't speak Bahasa Indonesia or Tagalog, LOL.

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