Re: CHAT: Star Wars and its conlangs

Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> Tom Wier wrote:
> > On a conlanging note (and I shall try to tread carefully  here
> > so that I won't reveal anything major about it)
>
> Star Wars is a rare exception in sci-fi, an attempt at genuine variety.
> Star Trek, on the other hand, has basically everyone speaking perfect
> English.  Star Wars gives lots of alien languages, and even a few
> varieties of the Standard Language, such as Yoda's speach,
Heh heh heh... I am more than ever convinced that Yoda's language
is Teonaht.  He thinks "object first."   My family used to tease
me about that.  "Convinced we are not," and all that. (not a spoiler!)

As far as Jar Jar goes, I was trying to discover a distinction between
mi and misa and couldn't.  The aliens were great.

Sally