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- From: miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc
- Subject: Re: Where was this special effect used?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.080633.44498@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 08:06:33 CST
- References: <1992Nov4.205023.44405@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <73751@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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- In article <73751@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt4476a@prism.gatech.EDU (Michael David Alberghini) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov4.205023.44405@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
- >>ALIEN LANGUAGE SIMULATION
- >>
- >>I used to do this as a kid; the idea is to produce the effect of an
- >>alien speaking English.
- >>
- > Technique is basically:
- >
- > 1. Tape yourself talking backwards.
- >
- > 2. Play the tape backwards
- >
- >>
- >>If this is done fairly carefully, the result will be understandable
- >>English, yet very alien-sounding--impossible to confuse with any
- >>earthly foreign accent.
- >>
- >> --
- >>-Ken <miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> {Sometimes you have to look reality straight
- >> OPINIONS ARE MY OWN {in the eye, and deny it. - G. Keillor
- >
- > I don't know of a movie where this was used but David Lynch uses it.
- > In Twin Peaks all of his 'supernatural' characters speak like this. It
- > is not always so easy to understand. Lynch had to use subtitles in both
- > tv and movies.
- >
- >
- > --
- > Mike Alberghini, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga, 30332
- > uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt4476a
- > Internet: gt4476a@prism.gatech.edu
- > --All right! No more mister nice pope!-- Cerebus--
- --
- -Ken <miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> {Sometimes you have to look reality straight
- OPINIONS ARE MY OWN {in the eye, and deny it. - G. Keillor
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