Re: Conlanging in the news
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 19:26 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
> Don't forget Victoria Fromkin (Blade I)...
Don't forget that a member of this very list (whose identity I *keep*
forgetting, try as I might to remember it -- was it Matt Pearson?) was
approached to reconstruct Fromkin's work for Blade II, but the deal
fell apart over money wranglings (essentially they offered as a *total*
fee the amount the linguist in question basically felt was suitable
*per hour*), and the vampires in the second film (I don't know about
the third, as I still have yet to see it) speak "subtitled gibberish"
unrelated to Fromkin's language.
A reasonable amount of fun was had at the time, producing competing
transliterations and interlinears of the dialog from Blade I.
Paul