SG1 and Egyptian once again

[draconia_99]

Last night, when my iPod finally crunched SG1 and the language it chose was English (unlike my computer, which insists the only available audio track is Czech) I realized that the Egyptian actually sounds much better in the Czech version. I guess they just received the text and were supposed to read what they saw, and somehow Czech pronunciation

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[quarryquest]

Interesting ... this sounds as if what I hear about was true. You know I said in that Redial meta about Peter Williams saying his lines weren't translated (he is just spouting transliterated words from a dictionary with the 'e' added as a vowel as far as I can see) but Michael Shanks DID.

Anyway, if I get some time tonight I shall have a look at the second lot of stuff (the one you sent me via e-mail) and see how it goes with the translation I made a while back.

p.s. I am sure listening to something spoken by a person who is a native in your own language helps. When I was listening to The Mummy Returns translation [it was done by Stuart Smith who I am beginning to suspect a little these days] when the 'Egyptian' was spoken by British actors I was fine. When South African or South Americans got hold of it I was going ... wha??