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To: alexander_busek

I loved the way she put her own spin on a Vulczn speaking English...”Spock...are ye Wulcan, or are ye hewl-man?”


18 posted on 08/28/2023 4:31:49 PM PDT by hoagy62 (Evil won...again.)
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To: hoagy62
I loved the way she put her own spin on a Vulczn speaking English...”Spock...are ye Wulcan, or are ye hewl-man?”

You are misquoting her.

In that episode, both actors - Leonard Nimoy and Celia Lovsky - attempt to speak a partly antiquated form of English, to somehow suggest that they are actually communicating with each other in some kind of ritualized or "church" Vulcan. But they fail, and make consistent mistakes - chiefly in not properly declining the intimate/singular form of the First Person Plural/Formal Pronoun "you" (which is "thou" in the Nominative Case, "thee" in the Accusative and Dative Cases, and "thy" or "thine" in the Possessive). Additionally, no one bothers to properly decline the associated verbs (e.g., "Thou art," "Thou hast.")

She thus should have asked: "Art thou Vulcan, or art thou human?"

These are things that anyone familiar with the King James version of the Bible already knows, and would have pointed out during the script reading.

Regards,

23 posted on 08/28/2023 11:10:48 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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