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Re: A couple stupid SW questions...
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Sun, 11 Jun 2000 03:32:28 GMT
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We-elll they technically have "universal translators."
They even talk about it in ST:VI when they're at the Klingon trial.
~Mark
In lugnet.starwars, Markus Wolf writes:
> That's what I've always enjoyed about Star Trek. They boldly go where no man
> has gone before and when they get there they discover without surprise... that
> they all speak English. At least Jabba and Greedo had subtitles.
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> In lugnet.starwars, Mark Sandlin writes:
> > In lugnet.starwars, Aaron West writes:
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> > > Dark Empire: E-Wing and V-Wing were exposed! Funny, every major • character in
> > > the SW Universe speaks English!!! I think is smells of a conspiracy...
> > > Aaron ;~)
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> > Nah, they speak "Basic."
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> > ;^)
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> > ~Mark
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| In Battlestar Gallactica they use "Languatron" devices that actually allow you to hear spoken alien words (like our "real-world"[whatever that is] news interviews) followed by English (or whatever them children of the stars call it). That seems most (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars)
| | | Re: A couple stupid SW questions...
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| (...) Besides which, the whole issue depends on suspension of disbelief (see, Greg--that's how it works!) Obviously aliens wouldn't speak English, but are you really interested in watching a show in which 58 minutes of each episode are devoted to (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| That's what I've always enjoyed about Star Trek. They boldly go where no man has gone before and when they get there they discover without surprise... that they all speak English. At least Jabba and Greedo had subtitles. (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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