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Re: CHAT: Star Wars and its conlangs

From:Joshua Shinavier <ajshinav@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 26, 1999, 7:55
> Matt Pearson wrote: > > The last time we discussed Star Wars languages on this list, I expressed > > the opinion that Huttese was a creole (or descended from a creole) in > > which the Galactic Common Tongue - i.e. the language represented by > > English in the movies - was the superstrate language. As evidence, I > > pointed to lines from Return of the Jedi such as "Nei Jabba no badda", > > meaning "Jabba may not be disturbed". > > Hmm, fascinating idea. I'd never noticed any similarity between Huttese > and English, but now that you point it out, perhaps so. I'll have to > rewatch it. But if so, it's quite distinct from English.
I always thought that whoever wrote Jabba's script was just short on imagination :) Most of his lines seem to parallel English -- his words for "Jedi mind trick" seemed pretty similar, as did "bantha podu" for "bantha fodder", etc. JJS