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Actual languages spoken by characters

posted 9 years ago by scubadivergeek
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OK, it didn't happen to often, but there were a few times where we actually go to hear what the actual languages spoken by the characters sounded like. For instance, in A Human Reaction, we hear Aeryn and I think Rygel speaking as heard by...well, they're not actuallly humans, but you know what I mean.

What i wonder is if there was actually written dialog that spoke, or did they just ad lib? And they obviously arrived at the "sound" of the Sebacean language by simply taking Claudia Black's voice and running backwards. So one would therefore wonder if what she actually said meant anything, or did she just improvise a bunch of gibberish, which they then ran backwards in post-production?

[–] RockinRickyRialto 9 years ago

Actually, check the trivia section on this page - http://farscape.wikia.com/wiki/A_Human_Reaction Apparently, Claudia Black really did train herself to speak the crazy backwards language on set, and it wasn't a dub. Props to her.

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[–] Jay_Jay1234 9 years ago

OK, it didn't happen to often

I wish it happened more. I loved when we got to hear the characters speaking, and understanding, to each other through the perspective of someone who hasn’t had the microbes implanted. I thought it was so very interesting.