Darth Vader, foreshadowin' (was Re: Tasratal: sketch: connectives (long)

In a message dated 26.10.2001 01:30:05 PM, yl112@CORNELL.EDU writes:

>>> "Yoon" san "Darth Vader" ~= Yoon has nothing to do with Darth Vader.
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>>>                              (the point is arguable, but...)
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>> :)) CHzang is gonna like this post :)
>> Hey, 'vader' in Dutch means father. Coincidence? (I never realized that,
>> because in French Darth Vader became Dark Vador - don't ask me why -)
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><blink>  Or "Vater" in German--gosh, you're right, I never thought of that
>either.
    ::GRiNZ BiK::  Yep... I immediately grokked to the element of
foreshadowing in the name _Darth Vader_.  Also - to my ears & logo-esthetics,
from way back - "Darth" is similar to both "dirth" (as in "dirth of morals
and ethics") and "death."  I am sure Lucas was vaguely aware of this via his
intense studies with Jungian shrinks & Joseph Campbell's books on
mythology/ies.
    And almost any extremely short word/name with both a strong "th" sound
and a "hard" initial consonant have certain negative connotations to people
whose NatLang find it hard to pronounce such words ;) & doubly if they don't
recognize the word, too.

    czHANg, native stepmother-English-tongue speaker who - somwat like t'e
Irishman James Joyce before him - finds English at times quite odd on his
tongue (& in his face, too, lah...)