Re: CHAT: Star Wars and its conlangs

> 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