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StuntHusband - Jul 13, 2009 7:07:42 am PDT #16366 of 30000

Electromagnetic candy! - Stark

(here is where I start to go OFF)

Lucas is a hack. There are no "languages", at all, canon or otherwise, in Star Wars. What George did was make funny transliterations for comedic effect. It isn't even like the faux-Klingonese (or klingonaase) that James Doohan crafted for the first "Star Trek" film, that was then shoehorned into TNG canon.

Tolkien only really started writing fiction as a vehicle for his invented languages; while not exactly true, the waaaaay-geeky Tolkienophile joke is "at 7, he knew 7 languages; at 21, he knew 21".

Sindarin is Gaelic in syntax and pronunciation; Quenya is Finnish (hah!). Sindarin is the common tongue of all Elves in Middle-earth; Quenya is the Latin of Elves, and only commonly spoken in the Uttermost West. In his notes, Tolkien remarked that Sindarin is more highly evolved, while Quenya is more primitive (there are even notes about "proto-Quenya", which is like Sanskrit) - and so Sindarin was more interesting to him to fiddle with. That's why there was enough in the corpus to allow David Salo to do his linguistic work for PJ's films.

(and now, I stop typing and go back to work)

See? Start me on Tolkien, and you'll all stick knives in your eyes to escape the deluge.

Dana - Jul 13, 2009 7:09:27 am PDT #16367 of 30000

I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

t cannot resist pulling out my geek cred

I sang in a Lord of the Rings Symphony concert. Two years in a row.

omnis_audis - Jul 13, 2009 7:09:37 am PDT #16368 of 30000

omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

:: sits in awe of Stunt Husband ::

tommyrot - Jul 13, 2009 7:11:41 am PDT #16369 of 30000

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

What George did was make funny transliterations for comedic effect.

That's what I've always thought.

So I guess we'll never know how Jabba asks for coffee....

Trudy Booth - Jul 13, 2009 7:12:26 am PDT #16370 of 30000

Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Does Jabba ASK for anything?

tommyrot - Jul 13, 2009 7:14:02 am PDT #16371 of 30000

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Does Jabba ASK for anything?

Well, by "ask" I meant "do this for me or I feed you to... I don't know, whatever the biggest creature in the dungeon is at the moment."

tommyrot - Jul 13, 2009 7:15:31 am PDT #16372 of 30000

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

OK, if Jaba was marooned on present-day Earth, what job would he take?

I vote commentator for Fox.

Vortex - Jul 13, 2009 7:20:12 am PDT #16373 of 30000

"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Lucas is a hack.

and we're done. Nothing else need be said.

-t - Jul 13, 2009 7:22:04 am PDT #16374 of 30000

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Radio talk-show host.

StuntHusband - Jul 13, 2009 7:22:05 am PDT #16375 of 30000

Electromagnetic candy! - Stark

I vote commentator for Fox.

That almost warrants COMMing. I had my mouth full of coffee.

IOcrankypantsN: Pigface's "Sick Asp F*ck" is perfect for this morning:

"I hate everything I hate everything I hate everything I hate everything"

Repeat.

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