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Nov 25 2024 08:47pm

Battlin' Billy
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I always wondered why some of the Star Wars characters had Brittish accents while others had American accents. How is that possible if Star Wars took place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away?
Just curious if anyone had a reasonable answer.

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This post was edited by Battlin' Billy on Feb 10 2003 11:44am.

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Mar 06 2003 07:45am

Jacen Aratan
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Tito, you sound drunk, I don't see any "hammer" here. *Looks around*

De er skøre på Djævleøen... :D

Mar 05 2003 04:13pm

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"Nuh slabpårh duhh baaarr heealt a' du'... Låhrs får du 'en mæ hameren, dær, li'e ih fjæsøt, åkai?! Sårr de' nåk, sludd...:)"

Can anybody (Danish or not) translate this... I'm having a really hard time doing this, even though I just wrote it...
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Mar 05 2003 03:33pm

Lord Jaws
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Wha ever Tito.
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Mar 05 2003 10:41am

TiTo (inactive)
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Aratarn; "Jai fårståår de' så'n noenlunne'!" :)
Og jeg er endda fra København...:D
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Mar 05 2003 09:41am

[JAS]GrymOne
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ioshee said-
"Also, a British accent in American cinema usually denotes superior intelligence."

Heh I'll Agree with ya on that one...
Just look at the Long Running Movie Series About a Secret Agent..Very Popular here in the state's and worldwide...(Gotta Love Q..)

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Feb 26 2003 03:06am

Jacen Aratan
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Nah, who wants Brittish or American accents, when you can get vestjysk (the danes know what I'm talking about). Just picture this: The vestjyde (called Han Erikkesåalene) walks in the hangar with a drawn barrelgun and his companion, a cow named Chewgrassa, and says: „Æw'n rør sa' eller a' pløwer jer ne' med mit gok'jern, forstå't?" None of the Imps move and Han and Chewgrassa jumps into their tractor and drives towards the sunset, wich later proved to be a rather bad idea considering that there is vacuum outside the hangar. :D

(But I feel sorry for the ppl responsible for translating to subtitles, not even many danes outside Vestjylland can understand their language...)

Feb 25 2003 08:46pm

Vaughn
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 Vaughn

My Fair Lady! YA! that was great (in eart ford ereford and amshere, urricained ardly Hever appen) ^_^
british accent - people who gave birht to the royal family (who lived)
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Feb 21 2003 03:26pm

Battlin' Billy
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No worries ioshee. What you said DOES make sense. And as far as the silliness, if there was no silliness in one of your posts, I would have to question whether you wrote it or not!:D

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Feb 20 2003 10:42pm

ioshee
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That depends on what kind of British accent you are using Mohawk. I suggest you watch the movie "My Fair Lady" for more info on the subject.

Billy, I was pretty much serious with a little silliness thrown in for good measure. My first post was really how I see the use of the accents in Star Wars. But I’m only a SELF-proclaimed movie expert so you could take it as just my 2 pence.
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Feb 20 2003 09:57pm

Masterw/AMohawk[JAP]
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 Masterw/AMohawk[JAP]

SO when I sing in a british accent in some of our songs... does that make us look smarter to all the punks in the crowd... or does it do one of those crazy negative positive things, coming full circle and making us look dumb again?
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Feb 18 2003 05:05pm

Battlin' Billy
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I look at it this way, when I'm on "Lawn Giland" :D I don't have an accent. If I'm away from here, then I have an accent.

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Feb 18 2003 02:17pm

Sniya
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Sir biz snatch that happens to me like you meet tons of northern irish people then you see us on the news and im like why do they have an accent
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Feb 18 2003 12:34pm

Aron
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hmm maybe its the hot british women who make the accent sexy .... ;)

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Feb 18 2003 08:54am

Bubu
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 Bubu

lmao @ yubyub

ahh yue oll sixes and sevens or whot? :D
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Feb 18 2003 05:43am

YubYub
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British accent=uber sexy? OK. Well i am a british guy so here you go ladies:

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Feb 17 2003 10:16pm

SirBizNatch
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british accents are funny.:D

btw, does anyone else here think that they have no accent while everyone else does. i think that american accent i sthe lack of an accent. or its just me. course then you got accents in diff regions of the country. im confusing mself.
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Feb 16 2003 05:26pm

Aron
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who cares :D

British accent = uber sexy

Feb 16 2003 10:41am

 
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The ones with the English accents are the cunts :)

There are no uber amazingly great good guys in Star Wars, but you should know that purely because there are no Scottish accents :)

Feb 14 2003 03:30pm

Battlin' Billy
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Except for a Lawn Giland accent!!! :D


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Feb 14 2003 02:58pm

Loaf
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well, anyone with a proper british accent like myself is obviously better than others :) (except the north of britain & ireland :))
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Feb 14 2003 05:23am

Bubu
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Thumb Wars... the scene where Darth Vader (or black helmet man) strangles this dude for underestimating the powah of the force..

right after.. he asks: any other comments? and some guy says:

i have a question: "Why do we all speak with a British accent when this is outer space and there's no Britain?"

and black helmet man pops his head off... :D

one of the funniest scenes in the movie ;)
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Feb 10 2003 10:46pm

YubYub
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 YubYub

Also Admiral Ozzel in ESB used to be in a programme calle dByker Grove here in the UK. He is VERY English. But in the movie was certainly not over intelligent

Feb 10 2003 10:45pm

YubYub
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 YubYub

OK, so take into account the following - Obi Wan (Late, great Sir Alec Guiness), C-3PO (Anthony Daniels, lives in Kent i believe), and others whose real names i can't remember (Darth Maul, Boba Fett [used to play cricket for Shropshire] and a few others)

Feb 10 2003 07:59pm

Battlin' Billy
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Is that true ioshee? Or are you being sarcastic again? :D

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Feb 10 2003 02:07pm

Masterw/AMohawk[JAP]
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Hahahaha, that's a really good way to show that, it's somewhat annoying however the americans are the "dumb" ones, oh well we win anyway eh? :D
BTW, GB Rawks like no other, got a big 'ole Union Jack right on the back of my leather jacket, heh,
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