The Expanse 1x5 FULL LENGTH + REACTION & REVIEW
Added 2020-07-28 01:07:45 +0000 UTCEpisode 5 'Back To The Butcher'
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To finally understand the accent: The Belter language was developed by linguist Nick Farmer with the assistance of Professor Eric Armstrong as dialect/accent coach. Belter is a creole. Creoles are based on a mother tongue—in this case English—but incorporate the influence of many other languages. Farmer looked to Haitian Creole for inspiration. Nowhere near as many languages contributed to that creole as to Belter, but it was the best correlate on Earth because it developed after people from all over the world arrived on the island—in many cases by force. “The situation for the Belters is the same,” Farmer says, “but in space.” Belter, mashes up six existing languages. Belter is composed mainly of Chinese, Japanese, Slavic, Germanic, and romance languages because Earth’s most common tongues would be the ones to survive. What first came out unfortunately sounded too much like Jamaican. So they made some tweaks to make the language sound more global. Now you pick up hints of familiar accents and languages—a little Italian here, some South African there, but just as soon as you think you’ve figured out which Earth-bound accent the actor is imitating, it changes. That’s by design. Belter can’t sound too much like any language on Earth. To do that, the actors was asked to speak Belter with their own personal style. “The idea was that Belter would be consistently inconsistent. But are some anchor sounds that we are aiming toward regardless of how strong or weak an accent is. Like, in Belter ‘TH’ words frequently switch to a D sound, so ‘dat ting dere.’ But someone who is an extremely well-spoken Belter, we make sure they can hit those THs.” In this way, Belter seems familiar… but you can’t quite put your finger on it.
Guthwulf
2020-07-28 18:09:19 +0000 UTCYou don't really need to understand the language to get the meaning, like when the prostitute got in Miller's face. Jared Harris is such a great catch. He tears it up every time he's on the screen. Loved that line about Earthers looking past their blue sky and think 'mine'. Harris has become an A-lister now with projects like Chernobyl and The Crown. Highly in demand. Kimd of unfortunate in a way. We now have the ship Rocinante and the title of the first episode is Dulcinea, so we're getting some Don Quixote references. The Expanse fan base call themselves "The Screaming Firehawks", the name that Alex suggested for the ship
bwr
2020-07-28 04:11:58 +0000 UTC
