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sportguy301
Ensign, Junior Grade
Joined: 19 Aug 2007
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 Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:24 am Q about Ashes to Ashes |
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when Lindsy starts to talk kubali the universal translator dosnt translate but when lindsey's "Father" talks to the crew it does translate any opinions on why
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TrekkieMage
Office Junkie
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Posts: 5335
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| Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:07 pm |
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Either it was a different dialect, or the words were more similar to English than the ones she used earlier, or it was just a glitch in the script 
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squiggy
Stooge Two
Joined: 09 Mar 2004
Posts: 3007
Location: Messing with the fabric of Video Game realities. I'll summon Shiva on you! I SWEAR!
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| Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:49 pm |
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| TrekkieMage wrote: | | Either it was a different dialect, or the words were more similar to English than the ones she used earlier, or it was just a glitch in the script |
Or the writers were expecting people not to pay attention to this detail. There is also a possibility that the translator needed time to calibrate itself to the knew language.
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TrekkieMage
Office Junkie
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| Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:18 pm |
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They do tend to hope there's a *lot* of stuff we won't notice
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Valathous
The Canadian, eh
Joined: 31 Aug 2002
Posts: 19074
Location: Centre Bell
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| Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:27 pm |
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The sad reality is that we do notice, 
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TrekkieMage
Office Junkie
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| Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:55 pm |
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Yeah, well, you'd think they'd have figured this out by now 
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