17 Jun
2018
17 Jun
'18
9:35 p.m.
On Jun 17, 2018, at 6:52 PM, Daniel Dadap <daniel@dadap.net> wrote:
How much of the dialect stuff in KGT is just Okrand retconning idiosyncrasies of particular performances?
Much of it, but not all. Morskan was “inspired by” actors’ lack of understanding of proper pronunciation and by a couple of DS9 scriptwriters’ inventions. The variant words for things like jackets are just for flavor. Be aware that the guy on duty at the Morskan listening post was *not* mispronouncing his lines. They were written and given to him that way on purpose to hint at his being from an outlying region. — ghunchu'wI'