The Gods Must Be Crazy

[VirginiaHuguenot]

Has anyone else seen The Gods Must Be Crazy?

 

[Pilgrim]

I saw both of them, but it was a long time ago.

 

[govols]

Andrew,

One of the funniest films I have seen. I want to know how they talk with that click sound.

 

[VirginiaHuguenot]

Originally posted by govols
Andrew,

One of the funniest films I have seen. I want to know how they talk with that click sound.

Me too!

 

[VictorBravo]

I saw them years ago too and thought they were hilarious. My favorite was when the guy got out to open the gate and his land rover rolled away. I'd had that happen too, but mine never rolled back.

 

[VirginiaHuguenot]

Originally posted by victorbravo
I saw them years ago too and thought they were hilarious. My favorite was when the guy got out to open the gate and his land rover rolled away. I'd had that happen too, but mine never rolled back.

That scene was tripping!

 

[turmeric]

AY-yi-YI-yi-YI!

 

[Kevin]

Loved it! I started to smile just being reminded of it by this post.

 

[VirginiaHuguenot]

[video=youtube;66pTPWg_wUw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66pTPWg_wUw[/video]

 

[JasonGoodwin]

I tried to watch it one night, but it got way too late in the night. I'll have to watch it again some other day.

BTW, John and Andrew, they do that clicking sound because it is part of their tribal language. If I'm not mistaken, when anthropologists have to transliterate it into written form, they have to use punctuation marks in names, and not necessarily to separate different parts of the sentence. I learned this when I took a class in Cultural Anthropology to satisfy my liberal arts requirement in college.

 

[VirginiaHuguenot]

Originally posted by JasonGoodwin
I tried to watch it one night, but it got way too late in the night. I'll have to watch it again some other day.

BTW, John and Andrew, they do that clicking sound because it is part of their tribal language. If I'm not mistaken, when anthropologists have to transliterate it into written form, they have to use punctuation marks in names, and not necessarily to separate different parts of the sentence. I learned this when I took a class in Cultural Anthropology to satisfy my liberal arts requirement in college.

That's interesting about the punctuation marks in their names. My father is anthropologist who spent time in Africa, and I think he has studied the Bushmen of the Kalahari to some extent. He enjoys this movie too.

 

[jaybird0827]

I spent two years in Swaziland. In Zulu and siSwati (Swazi dialect of Zulu), there are three different clicks, designated in the written language by the letters "c", "q" and "x". "c" is like "tsk", "x" is like "tch", and "q" is a hard sound that you make by pulling your tongue off the roof of your mouth.

These spellings agree with a convention that we had learned by studying a book titled Manual of Articulatory Phonetics prior to going to the field.

 

[VirginiaHuguenot]

Originally posted by jaybird0827
I spent two years in Swaziland. In Zulu and siSwati (Swazi dialect of Zulu), there are three different clicks, designated in the written language by the letters "c", "q" and "x". "c" is like "tsk", "x" is like "tch", and "q" is a hard sound that you make by pulling your tongue off the roof of your mouth.

These spellings agree with a convention that we had learned by studying a book titled Manual of Articulatory Phonetics prior to going to the field.

Very interesting, Jay!

 

[jaybird0827]

Here's some more official information. The article includes information about the 3 clicks.

(You'll have to hover over the above sentence to find the hyperlink until that one issue is resolved).