Sorry, this is off topic, but what does "(news)" mean, beside each film person's name?
Posted by marian at December 18, 2003 09:04 PMIt takes you to a Yahoo search for that person; for instance, Ron Howard (news). I guess I could have either linked them or deleted them, but I was feeling lazy.
Posted by language hat at December 18, 2003 09:15 PM Don't know if anyone's mentioned it, but the elder in the animated film Brother Bear was speaking what seemed to me a dialect of the Inuit, In~upiaq, or Yupiq (Eskimo)language group. I recognized it from the Yupiq I learned in the Yukon-Kuskokwim rivers delta in the early 90's.
By the way, hope that some of you caught the program on Public Television in which a hunter from Southhampton Island in far Northern Canada teaches his son how to hunt seal. Excellent programming. Hopefully we "gussaks" (phonetic spelling for non-Yupit people) can learn from this example of father-to-son transmission of survival knowledge.