Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 19:45:18 GMT From: Leigh Butler Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan Subject: Re: Jordan's accent On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 12:50:39 -0400, The Great Gray Skwid wrote: >We leaned closer as Leigh Butler whispered: > >> (Of course, in L.A. it's a tossup as to whether it'll be someone who >> needs the slowness for mental reasons or for "we thought it'd be a >> good idea to put the one person who speaks ZERO english on the >> drive-through speaker!" reasons.) > >Don't you love when you pull into a Taco Bell[1] and you hear in perfect >perky english: "Welcome to Taco Bell! Would you like to try our >$TreatOfTheWeek?" The answer, of course, is always "No." Which is then >followed by someone whose grasp of english is vague at best saying some >equivalent of "How may I help you." I don't even get that much, generally - in addition to the language barrier, these guys seem to be enjoying a trend of sedative abuse. So I'm likely to get something more like "Wehmuntahobell, kuneyetekyerodorplez?" I could take recordings of drive-through encounters I've had and turn them into a whole alien language for George Lucas to use, I think. He could call them Dramaminians. -- Leigh Butler leigh_butler@paramount.com ****************************************************** The opinions expressed above do not necessarily reflect those of Paramount Pictures or its affiliates