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Subject: Star Wars
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Date: Thu, 12-Jan-84 22:36:29 EST
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ STAR WARS Revisited ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Jawa baby-talk?  Well, as a linguist I couldn't help having certain
elements in the alien languages jump out at me.  One was the mis- (or
extremely loose) translation given for Greedo's.  The word "Jabba", an
obvious foreign lexical item in his speech where it occurred once,
appeared \twice/ in the subtitles.  It was the only analysable
element.  I fared better with Jawaese, however, in being able to
recognize a whole sentence, "Ut-dee-dee!", a 2nd person imperative
with semantic component of movement.  Roughly, "Get moving!" It can be
heard 3 times, usually addresses to R2, as in the scene at the Lars
moisture farm when the droids are told to get out of the hold of the
Sandcrawler.

But...  Good grief!  Even a year ago I could still have told Jeff
Bowles where the English writing was, without a moment's hesitation.
(On the tractor beam mechanism Obi-Wan turned off?)  But, as of May
25th, 1983, \I/ got so badly turned off that I'm even giving up the
D.VADER personal license plates I've had since '78!  (Am contemplating
getting SF-LOVR for '85 when NASFiC is here, to celebrate meeting
people who have contributed so much pleasure via my VDT.  Y'all come!)
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