Subject: Re: Hungarian
From: ekushnir@math.lsa.umich.edu (Eugene Kushnirsky)
Date: 1991-02-16, 13:28
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <23152@well.sf.ca.us> rsires@well.sf.ca.us (Ron Sires) writes:

 [On which language Eckhart was speaking]

> >My immediate impression was Russian (which IS a Slavic language, BTW).

It wasn't Russian. Whether it was intended to be, however, is another story.
Which brings up the point: they could have been talking babytalk. In which case
the question is pretty moot. I doubt that the TP folks would have actually
hired a language coach for a couple of lines. So unless they did and the actors
managed to pronounce things the way they're meant to be pronounced (which is 
seldom the case), guessing "Hungarian" has the same probability of being 
correct as guessing "Farsi".

Eugene Kushnirsky

"A room for two is HOW much?" --Thomas Eckhart speaking to his assistant 
                                in Farsi.
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