Re: Movie conlangs (was: Re: Men vs Women on Conlang)

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 21:52:13 +0000 Joe <joe@...> writes:
> On Monday 16 December 2002 9:27 pm, Jeffrey Henning wrote:
> > Thomas Leigh comunu:
> > > Alas, I saw "Nemesis" last night and there wasn't a single word
> of
> > > Romulan in it. :(
> > Yes, it was a disappointment from that angle.  Some Reman
> hieroglyphs,
> > though.
> > Best regards,
> I'd expect romulan to be similar to vulcan, in the same way Spanish
> is similar
> to French.  Maybe a rougher form of it, or something.
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If i remember correctly, Diane Duane invented a non-canonical Romulan
language ("Rihannsu"?) for her Star Trek novels about Romulans.  The
Romulans who left Vulcan to become Romulans conlanged their new language
into existance by going back to some Vulcan proto-language and making an
a-posteriori new language based on it, but very different from the Vulcan
languages of their time.  More like English and Farsi than Spanish and
French.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "debbie debbie debbie, debbie veetal..."
     ~ onomatopeia in 'around the world' by kaskeset