The week’s least intriguing Avatar article comes from Vanity Fair‘s usually engaging Julian Sancton, who interviews the guy hired to crate the Na’vi language — i.e., Paul Frommer, Professor of Clinical Management Communication at U.S.C.
Sanction: “How would you greet someone who called you on the phone in Na’vi, if there were such things as phones on Pandora?” Frommer: “I would say, ‘Kaltxi. Ngaru lu fpom srak?’ Which is kind of, ‘Hello, how are you?'” The piece includes a sound file of Frommer saying this.
