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Conversationalists

IfilimuUtheleleke, usaphila2000 kuya ku-2009

Pontypool takes place in a small-town Ontario radio station while a language-borne infection spreads outside. Its director insisted the victims are not zombies but conversationalists. The approach was inspired by Orson Welles's War of the Worlds broadcast.1

Lwa nayo
Kuvele kuqala
2008
Released 2008
Umsebenzi womthombo
Pontypool (2008)
Bruce McDonald (writer Tony Burgess)
Yenziwe ku-
I-Canada
Okuyibangela
Okunye
A virus that infects certain words of the English language and passes to the people who use them.
Indlela oba ngayo yinye
Using an infected word.
Izindawo ezibuthaka
  • not speaking English
  • stripping a word of its meaning
amanothi ensimini

Okushiwo yimithombo

1

Stage one: the victim gets stuck repeating a word, often a term of endearment1

2

Stage two: speech becomes scrambled; stage three: the victim tries to chew through another person's mouth1

3

Speaking French or Armenian protects, because only English is infected1

4

Telling a victim that kill now means kiss makes her symptoms subside1

5

News broadcasts about the quarantine spread the infection further1

6

Based on Tony Burgess's 1995 novel Pontypool Changes Everything and also produced as a radio play1

Imithombo

  1. Pontypool (film) - Wikipedia

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