Re: CHAT: Star Wars and its conlangs

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, and Jar-Jar's
people.  However, one wonders why seemingly every planet has the same
dialect.  Why is Anikin's speach the same as Qui-Gon Jinn's?  Other than
Anikan calling a light-saber a "laser sword", there's no hint of any
dialectal variation.  Ah, well, can't expect too much, I guess.  :-)

--
"It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father
was hanged." - Irish proverb
http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files
http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html
ICQ: 18656696
AIM Screen-name: NikTailor