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- From: ldragon@unkaphaed.gbdata.com (kati norris)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss,alt.french.captain.borg.borg.borg
- Subject: Re: Patrick Stewart & "Space Age"
- Message-ID: <7ywouB1w165w@unkaphaed.gbdata.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 11:41:05 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.222058.20477@netcom.com>
- Organization: Unka Phaed's UUCP Thingy, Houston, TX
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- solovay@netcom.com (Andrew M. Solovay) writes:
-
- > In article <1992Nov17.142003.102979@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> dh0a@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu
- > >In a recent episode, Jean Luc was transformed into a 12/13 yearold by a
- > >transporter malfunction. I found it fascinating that he spoke with an
- > >absolutely FLAWLESS British public school accent. Where did this come from?
- > >I thought he was a French fellow, raised in the wine country.
- >
- > Picard's body was changed, but his mind was not. Since Picard is
- > French, he presumably learned English with an English accent
- > (since England is closer than the US). Ideally, they would've
- > found a kid who could do Stewart's "English-Shakespearean-Actor-
- > Doing-a-French-Guy-Speaking-English-Flawlessly" accent, but that
- > was too much to hope for, so they just settled for some JV Etonian.
- >
- > >Does this mean that in the future we have succeeded and finally eliminated
- > >French as a language!?!?!?
- >
- > We can always hope...
- > --
- >
- > "We know that Solovay is a misogynist and an idiot..."
- > --Melinda Shore
-
- Maybe the fact that they used Nimoy's kid for the part had something to
- do with it.
-
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