Doctor Who - "Ancient North Martian"

[fiat_knox]

During the latest Doctor Who episode, "The Waters of Mars," the Doctor said something in an alien language - Ancient North Martian.

Phonetically, it sounded like "Vood-WAAR oon-SHOCHT oon-AAAAAAARN, udon-EENCH OCH fortobeloNEEN vood-WAARN." I'd probably have written it something like "Vudwahr unshocht unahrn, udoneench och fortobelonin vudwarn."

I'd love to see how that line was written in David Tennant's script. :)

Comments

[sandchigger.livejournal.com]

It may well be like the old ST:TNG scripts that had [insert technobabble] in them and be written as

Doctor: [make alien sounding noises]

Heh

[fiat-knox.livejournal.com]

Which, as Kahless would say, is [insert exceptionally crude Klingon invective pertaining to the scriptwriters' mothers and sisters here].

Re: Heh

[sandchigger.livejournal.com]

Speaking of Klingons, did you hear about the guy who taught his son Klingon before English?

Re: Heh

[fiat-knox.livejournal.com]

D'Armand Speers of the KLI. :) Yes. I just had a chat with him about locative suffixes. He's been working with the company that's been creating a Klingon translator app for the iPhone.

Re: Heh

[sandchigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I read that followup bit today. Kinda nifty. Now tell him to get it released on the droid's OS too.

Re: Heh

[fiat-knox.livejournal.com]

I'd have to join the queue. There are people on that list who want it released on Windows, Linux and the Mac as well.