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Incubus on TCM

door biguglydave, 27 september 2010

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Taal: English

biguglydave (Profiel tonen) 27 september 2010 19:15:48

I fell asleep on the couch watching baseball last Friday night. I woke up just in time to catch "Incubus" on the Turner Classic Movie channel on my local cable system. Did anyone else in the USA/Canada see it?

It was worth watching once just to test my listening comprehension. I had read about the movie on several e-o forums in the past. Does anyone have or know of a written transcript of the script so I can see if I heard what I think I heard?

tommjames (Profiel tonen) 27 september 2010 19:27:17

It was worth watching once just to test my listening comprehension
I wouldn't use Incubus for that, the pronunciation is generally useless and the Esperanto itself is quite awful in many ways ("vi estas ebla marŝi".. come on senkulpa.gif)

However I do have a transcript, here. I found a few errors and inconsistencies with the original transcript in it though, here and there.

biguglydave (Profiel tonen) 27 september 2010 19:36:31

tommjames: here. I found a few errors and inconsistencies with the original transcript in it though, here and there.
Thanks very much. That's just what I was looking for!

tommjames (Profiel tonen) 27 september 2010 19:50:31

No probs. That file appears to have many of the errors in the spoken dialogue fixed so that's a bonus I guess.

I also have another file here which shows the time when each phrase is spoken in the soundtrack, if you find that useful.

EoMy (Profiel tonen) 28 september 2010 11:56:24

tommjames:No probs. That file appears to have many of the errors in the spoken dialogue fixed so that's a bonus I guess.

I also have another file here which shows the time when each phrase is spoken in the soundtrack, if you find that useful.
Wonderful Tom, by the way, what is the meaning of Incubus, i cannot get it on lernu dictionary

Kirilo81 (Profiel tonen) 28 september 2010 12:19:53

EoMy:
Wonderful Tom, by the way, what is the meaning of Incubus, i cannot get it on lernu dictionary
incubus is Latin for 'nightmare', it's not Esperanto (= koŝmaro).

Oŝo-Jabe (Profiel tonen) 28 september 2010 12:27:16

Kirilo81:
EoMy:
Wonderful Tom, by the way, what is the meaning of Incubus, i cannot get it on lernu dictionary
incubus is Latin for 'nightmare', it's not Esperanto (= koŝmaro).
It is also a kind of demon: the male counterpart of a succubus. (Both succubi and and an incubus appear in this movie, so I wouldn't count on it being the nightmare meaning.) Plus, I thought the most common word for 'nightmare' in Esperanto was 'inkubsonĝo' and 'koŝmaro' was a more poetic way of saying it, like 'primavero' vs. 'printempo.'

tommjames (Profiel tonen) 28 september 2010 13:37:34

Kirilo81:incubus is Latin for 'nightmare', it's not Esperanto (= koŝmaro).
True, however the related form inkubo in Esperanto does mean nightmare as well as a demon. For nightmare there's also premsonĝo.

sudanglo (Profiel tonen) 28 september 2010 14:21:52

Long time since I saw it. But I vaguely remember it as pretty awful and confirm Tom's point about using it as a model. There was another film wasn't there, called Angoroj or something like that, which again I vaguely remember was unwatchable.

Ooh. According to Wikipaedia there were some famous Esperantists involved in Angoroj. So why do I remember it as so uninspiring.

If you want to watch videos of Esperanto spoken really well, Dave, you should search out the U-tube recordings of speeches by Professor Ivo Lapenna at various congresses.

I expect there are transcripts of these somewhere on the net.

roint (Profiel tonen) 28 september 2010 16:13:42

I actually own Incubus on DVD. The Esperanto is close to incomprehensible, but it's a pretty good movie. My non-esperantist friends watched it once for some laughs, but everyone was at least a little captivated. It's good to have on at halloween parties.

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