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From: John Riley [log in to unmask]
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:08:36 +0000
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Subject: Re: Language in film--'english' italians, 'english' french, etc...
"In the LotR case, they're not in use outside the books and
the film and the few people who, for whatever reason, chose to learn
them. If a man speaks Elvish in a forest and nobody listens does the
language exist? It depends whether you think it's a means of
communication (needing a sender and a receiver) or simply a complete
and coherent system that needs only to exist for itself to be classed
as a 'language'. Maybe more people are learning Elvish because of the
films?"
Actually, in the language teaching community, it's well-known that, thanks
to Star Trek fan clubs, there are now more living speakers of Klingon thzn
of Navajo.
--Robert Keser
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