Re: Swedish language in BR:FC

Nicklas Ingels wrote:

> At 10:11 (In spinner after Deckard's interupted meal at White Dragon)
> 
> "Grön Sektor Inkommande" (Green Sector Incomming)
> 
> At 10:44 (Landing on Police HQ)
> 
> "Klara Kontrakt. Tre Noll Kilometer Väst" (Clear contract, Three Zero
> Kilometers West)

"Clear contract"? Do you have an idea what this might refer to?

Also note the use of the metric system. How unrealistic. No way that the 
U.S. will have made it as early as 2019.  :-P

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I was only able to understand parts of the German lines; some were 
(thankfully) drowned in the music.

Flight to the Police headquarters:

    Radarkontrolle Zwei [...] Rot Zwei. [...] grüner Sektor. 
Automatische Annäherung -- Zugang Zwei [...]
    (Radar control Two [...] Red Two. [...] green sector. Automatic 
approach -- Entry Two)

    [...] Landungsbahn Rot Zwei
    ([...] runway Red Two)

Flight to Tyrell pyramid:

    [...] null-neun-null sechs Höhenmesser neunundzwanziger [?] neuner 
[?] drei. Inter-space Inter-city Spinner Phase sechs.

    ([...] zero-nine-zero six altimeter twenty-niner [?] niner [?] 
three. Inter-space Inter-city spinner phase six.)

As you can tell, it makes even less sense than the usual science-fiction 
goobledygook. Why "altimeter", not "altitude" (Höhe). Also, there are 
some language mistakes: "Landungsbahn" makes some sense, but the usual 
term is "Landebahn". Either word stands for an entire airplane runway 
strip; you wouldn't use it for a landing platform on a rooftop. 
"Annäherung" is a possible verbatim translation for "approach", but in 
aviation you'd use "Anflug". I've also previously mentioned the German 
"sh-p" pronunciation for "spinner", which suggests the German word for 
"wacko" rather than an English loanword.

I'm aware I'm nitpicking here. It's been a long-standing Hollywood 
practice not to pay much attention to the rendering of foreign 
languages. Also, one could argue that the controller might be not be 
meant as a German native speaker. He has in fact an English (British?) 
accent. (But then, you'd think that he'd at least be familiar with the 
vocabulary in his own profession. A communication problem in flight 
control can easily be fatal.)