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Re: A couple stupid SW questions...
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lugnet.starwars
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Tue, 13 Jun 2000 16:42:03 GMT
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> 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.
In lugnet.starwars, Mark Sandlin writes:
> We-elll they technically have "universal translators."
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> They even talk about it in ST:VI when they're at the Klingon trial.
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 establishing a basis for communication?
As for subtitles, those are there for the viewers, obviously--I've always
perceived that some people in the Star Wars universe speak several languages
and simply prefer to communicate in their own; Han understands Greedo, Greedo
understands Han, so why bother speaking another language?
Dave!
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| (...) True. From personal experience, people in real-life prefer to talk in their native toungue if they know that the person will understand them. I've seen lots of families in which the parents constantly speak to their kids in one language, and (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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