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Battlin' Billy - Student  |
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. _______________ Midbie Council Member #2 - Profile ID 2073 | Member of B@rtM@ulS@ar | Owner of Monty's 2000th comment & D@RtHM@UL's 8100th comment | Former Padawan of SilkMonkey & Arcuss JA Goaltender & NHL Fan | Fellow Rush fan to Axion|Plo Koon is my oldest JA friend Post your RL pics HERE! | Post you JK2/JK3 screenies HERE! This post was edited by Battlin' Billy on Feb 10 2003 11:44am. |
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TiTo (inactive) - Student 
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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... _______________ Not back yet... I'll come one day, I hope... The madman formerly (and still) known as Tito! Coming to take back my title as "Most insane 'person' in the JA" It's the bizzi, wizza, jizzi, Wizzil, Bizon, wizzay, Wizzat, fizzil ¶°TiTo°¶ - All work and no play makes Tito burn the bacon! - Officially cured from spamming!!!
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Lord Jaws - Student 
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Wha ever Tito. _______________ One night, I was lying in my bed, looking up at the stars and I said to myself: "Where the h*** is my ceiling?! |
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TiTo (inactive) - Student
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Aratarn; "Jai fårståår de' så'n noenlunne'!"
Og jeg er endda fra København...  _______________ Not back yet... I'll come one day, I hope... The madman formerly (and still) known as Tito! Coming to take back my title as "Most insane 'person' in the JA" It's the bizzi, wizza, jizzi, Wizzil, Bizon, wizzay, Wizzat, fizzil ¶°TiTo°¶ - All work and no play makes Tito burn the bacon! - Officially cured from spamming!!!
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[JAS]GrymOne - Student ![[JAS]GrymOne](/image_thumbnail.php?f_type=users&f_width=58&f_height=70&f_image=grymone.jpg&f_odd=1)
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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..) Grym |
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Jacen Aratan - Student |
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.
(But I feel sorry for the ppl responsible for translating to subtitles, not even many danes outside Vestjylland can understand their language...) |
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Vaughn - Student 
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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) _______________ When you become an actor, you become the person, and you dont act anymore. You just are. - Tyler HP, Taught by Mr G Simpson |
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Battlin' Billy - Student 
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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!
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ioshee - Student 
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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. _______________ One of the Belouve boys |
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Masterw/AMohawk[JAP] - Ex-Student ![Masterw/AMohawk[JAP]](/image_thumbnail.php?f_type=users&f_width=51&f_height=70&f_image=Masterwmohawk.jpg)
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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? _______________ [Oi Oi Oi!!] |
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Battlin' Billy - Student 
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I look at it this way, when I'm on "Lawn Giland" I don't have an accent. If I'm away from here, then I have an accent.
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Sniya - Student 
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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 _______________ The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. Bertrand Russell http://www.thejediacademy.net/forums_detail_page.php?f_id=970 |
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Aron - Retired 
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hmm maybe its the hot british women who make the accent sexy ....  This comment was edited by Aron on Feb 18 2003 12:34pm. |
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Bubu - Hubbub 
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lmao @ yubyub
ahh yue oll sixes and sevens or whot? _______________ make install -not war |
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YubYub - Student 
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British accent=uber sexy? OK. Well i am a british guy so here you go ladies:
Jolly good Whatwhatwhat Jeeves, fetch the car, one wishes to go home TADAAA! |
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SirBizNatch - Student 
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british accents are funny.
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. _______________ Personal body guard to teh 1337 Jacen Aratan! Midbie Council Memeber||Member of the Almighty FiZZsters |
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Aron - Retired
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who cares
British accent = uber sexy |
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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 |
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Battlin' Billy - Student
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Except for a Lawn Giland accent!!!
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Loaf - Ex-Student 
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well, anyone with a proper british accent like myself is obviously better than others (except the north of britain & ireland ) _______________ The Notorious Conversation Killer |
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Bubu - Hubbub 
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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...
one of the funniest scenes in the movie _______________ make install -not war |
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YubYub - Student 
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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 |
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YubYub - Student
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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) |
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Battlin' Billy - Student
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Is that true ioshee? Or are you being sarcastic again?
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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?
BTW, GB Rawks like no other, got a big 'ole Union Jack right on the back of my leather jacket, heh, _______________ [Oi Oi Oi!!] This comment was edited by Masterw/AMohawk[JAP] on Feb 10 2003 02:07pm. |
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ioshee - Student 
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In the Star Wars movies, a British accent represents a powerful controlling dictatorship while an American accent represents change and a general questioning of authority. This is taken from the history of America in that the first Americans were like the rebels, trying to break free of the oppressive British government (the Empire.) Also, a British accent in American cinema usually denotes superior intelligence. You may have noticed that some rebels have British accents and some emperials have American accents. That just means those particular rebels were exceptionally smart while the emperials with American accents were dumber than usual. _______________ One of the Belouve boys |
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