According to Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner by Paul M. Sammon, the actual words of Cityspeak were put together by Edward James Olmos, the actor who pla

According to Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner by Paul M. Sammon, the actual words of Cityspeak were put together by Edward James Olmos, the actor who plays Gaff: > [Second credited Blade Runner screenplay author David] Peoples did not, however, come up with the mishmash of languages that Olmos speaks in the film. "That was pretty much all Eddie's doing," Peoples recalls. "All I'd done was indicate that Gaff was speaking some funny language in the script and then translated that into English." > According to Olmos, "Cityspeak was already a word being tossed around when I came onto the picture. I'm not sure who came up with the actual word -- I think it was David Peoples. But I guess I'm the guy who literalized it. > "My first idea was to put a mixture of genuine Spanish, French, Chinese, German, Hungarian, and Japanese into Cityspeak. Then I went to the Berlitz School of Languages in Los Angeles, translated all these different bits and pieces of Gaff's original dialogue into fragments of foreign tongues, and learned to properly pronounce them. I also added some translated dialogue I'd made up myself. All that was a bitch and a half, but it really added to Gaff's character."