Re: Swedish language in BR:FC

Eberhard Schefold wrote:
> Nicklas Ingels wrote:
>
>> Wow, In the "Blade Runner" thread of the forum at minhembio.com
>> someone has notice that sometime "When they fly around in the
>> beginning, a voice from the flight controll tower speaks Swedish"
>>
>> It's then repeated in German & Japanese (they say/think)
>
> I could transcribe and translate the German bits. I've never bothered
> before because it's obvious technical gobbledygook and sloppily done.
>
> I've said this before, but the multi-language controllers don't make
> much sense to me. In a system like this, you'd need one unambiguous
> way of communicating, even if the city was polyglot. All the Police
> dispatchers talk English. Also, it's sort of counterfeiting the idea
> of Cityspeak as a language of its own, at least in the way the
> original voice-over describes it. It is not a "mixture" of languages.
> The languages stand next to each other, unchanged. The only instance
> where the concept of Cityspeak is actually realized is with Gaff's
> lines.

I agree, that's a good point.