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From: seumas@vnet.ibm.com (James Walker)
Subject: Re: Quest for Fire
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 13:40:28 GMT
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In <DA6GL5.KqM@freenet.carleton.ca>, ag737@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Wallace J.McLean) writes:
>How did the creative people for this film come up with the language
>spoken? I have heard it is based on some modern language, but I forget
>which one.
The novelist Anthony Burgess came up with the language, which he loosely
based on Proto-Indo-European (although he admitted that it was unlikely that
they would be speaking anything close to this).  Check the second volume of
his autobiography, _You've Had Your Time_, for the full story.  Also, there's an
essay on this (can't remember the title) in his collection of essays entitled
_But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?_

James
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James Walker, Toronto Information Development, IBM Canada
"Who'd've thought a nuclear reactor would be so complicated?"
-- Homer Simpson
Disclaimer: The above views are mine, not those of IBM.
