I think of it kind of like the early Internet, where you might be able to telnet to one server, then telnet from there to another server, then download a file by FTP to that one, then figure out how to get it from the second telnet server to the first, and then download it at the computer lab and save it to a disk you can carry home because you only have dial-up at home (but meanwhile you can carry on a live phone call with someone in the same room as the original FTP server). #
Tag: StarWars
I keep misspelling Rey’s name, and now I want to know: is there, somewhere in …
I keep misspelling Rey’s name, and now I want to know: is there, somewhere in the expanded #StarWars universe, a character whose name looks or sounds like Shinji to go with her and Ahsoka?
What is Yoda’s syntax in other languages?
What is Yoda’s syntax in other languages?
Sometimes people ask the best questions on Reddit:
What does Yoda’s syntax look like in non-English versions of Star Wars? For those who aren’t familiar with Star Wars (all two of you), Yoda is an alien who, when speaking English, uses what seems to be an OSV syntax instead of the traditional SVO syntax.
So how do foreign translations of the script handle this? I am particularly interested in what it looks like in non-SVO languages. Are there any translations where Yoda’s incorrect syntax is emulated by using an English-like syntax? Or are other languages’ syntax so free that mistakes in the use of case or verb conjugations must instead be used to emulate Yoda’s “alien” speech?
And some answers so far:
- Czech: Free word order. Yoda speaks consistently in SOV. Interestingly enough, putting an object before a verb does sound unusual to most speakers of Czech.
- Estonian: Free word order language. Yoda retains the English OSV order. This is grammatical in Estonian, but does make it seem as though Yoda is constantly stressing the object phrase as the main point of his statements. This gives his speech an unusual quality.
- French: An SVO language. Yoda speaks in OSV.
- German: A SVO or SOV language. Yoda brings the Object to the front (OSV), like in English.
- Hungarian: A free word order language. There is nothing unusual about Yoda’s speech.
- Italian: An SVO language. Yoda speaks in OSV. Note: OSV is also the syntax used in the Italian of the less-proficient speakers of Italian from the region of Sardinia.
- Japanese: An SOV language. Yoda seems to use a more or less correct syntax, with a more archaic vocabulary.
- Korean: An SOV language. Nothing is unusual about Yoda’s grammar.
- Norwegian: An SVO language. Yoda speaks in OSV.
- Romanian: An SVO language. Yoda speaks in OSV. He also places adjectives before the noun instead of after the noun, and uses an archaic form of the future tense.
- Spanish: An SVO language. Yoda speaks in OSV.
- Turkish: An SOV language. Yoda speaks in OSV. Note: This order is also used in classical Ottoman poetry, so the syntax may have been chosen in order to emphasize Yoda’s wisdom or age.
May the Fourth Be With You
May the Fourth Be With You.
@casualCosplayKatie@Instagram.com as Cloud City Princess Leia.
#StarWars #PrincessLeia #MayTheFourth #Cosplay (sorta)
#MayTheFourth be with you! https://www.instagram.com/p/BxDaMyMJ8-6/
May the Fourth Be With You! @CasualCosplayKatie: Easiest #princessleiahair by a long shot. Now with full ‘bound outfit (even if I’m not bound anywhere today)!
Review: Star Wars: The Last Jedi
I learned long ago that “things happened that I didn’t like” and “it was badly made” are two different complaints about a movie. And while a lot of stuff happened that I didn’t like, it was interesting and creative in a way that Star Wars hasn’t been able to be in decades. We knew where the prequels were heading, we knew where Rogue One was heading, and The Force Awakens followed essentially the same plot beats as A New Hope.
It’s dark, yes – but not really much darker than Revenge of the Sith, another film that features the slow, inexorable snuffing out of hope by a powerful galactic-sized force, leaving only a handful of heroes at the end. But with RotS, we knew things would get better (eventually). This time, we get a triumphant return at the end, and a hint at a better future in the epilogue.
The Last Jedi made it possible for Star Wars to be surprising again, and unless Episode IX goes out of its way to reject it (or even if it does), I suspect it’ll be received better in the long run than it has been in the moment.
That always bugged me as unnecessary. When we see him in Return of the Jedi…
@Gargron That always bugged me as unnecessary. When we see him in Return of the Jedi, he’s 20 years older anyway and probably using the Dark Side to prolong his life like the One Ring and Gollum.
But I guess Lucas wanted to go with the thematic revealing-his-true-face thing.
Rose Tico & Admiral Holdo at @longbeachcomiccon
Photo taken at: Long Beach Comic Con
Rose Tico & Admiral Holdo #cosplay at #lbcc2018
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R2-D2 is looking extra boxy. Maybe it’s the Minecraft version? ;-)
R2-D2 is looking extra boxy. Maybe it’s the Minecraft version? 😉
Spotted in San Diego last week.
On Flickr
On Wandering.shop
On PixelFed.Social
It’s some sort of utility box. Electrical, maybe?
So let’s bury this bullshit about how women didn’t grow up on Star Wars.
On TumblrThis is my friend TJ, wearing a costume she made for Halloween, 1977. She was 16 at the time.
Now, keep in mind: there was no internet to search for images. She could not have rented and paused the movie, because it wasn’t released on video until 1982. No, TJ just went to the movie a bunch of times, took notes with a flashlight, drew a bunch of sketches, and put this together.
In 19-fucking-77. So let’s bury this bullshit about how women didn’t grow up on Star Wars.
Some dude tried to explain why TLJ is an insult to real fans and since I liked it I wasn’t a real fan and SON, I GOT A DOT MATRIX PRINT OUT OF Star Wars: New Hope, The Journal of the Whills, Part 1 IN A DRAWER SOMEWHERE, COME AT ME.
My mother is 74 years old and knows what a Corellian blood stripe is. The ladies have been here the whole time.
Every time someone complains about the Canto Bight storyline being pointless I have to wonder if they left the movie early and missed the final scene.
Every time someone complains about the Canto Bight storyline being pointless I have to wonder if they left the movie early and missed the final scene.
The last scene shows the spark of hope taking hold. Removing Canto Bight removes the epilogue, which leaves an unremittingly bleak story, bleaker than Revenge of the Sith…but only because we already knew where RoTS had to go.
The Death Star needs to stay outside the bathroom.
Another in the long series of things I never thought I’d have to say:
“The Death Star needs to stay outside the bathroom.”
I can sort of understand thinking TLJ “killed hope”…if they didn’t stay
@Ragnell I can sort of understand thinking TLJ “killed hope”…if they didn’t stay to the end of the movie.
The First Order does everything they can to snuff out that spark, and almost succeeds…but it flares again. The epilogue w/the Canto Bight kids shows that it’s taking hold.
Can We Please Stop Pretending That ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Is A Box Office Bomb?
Moana/Rey cosplay mashup at lbcc2017 @gicosplay
Wonder Woman and a Darth Ninja Turtle
Photo taken at: Long Beach Comic Expo
Wonder Woman and a Darth Ninja Turtle
#cosplay #wonderwoman #tmnt #ninjaturtles #starwars #lbcc #lbcc2017
We’ve tried to introduce J to Star Wars a few times
We’ve tried to introduce J to Star Wars a few times over the years, but while he’s liked the toys, he’s never really been interested in the movies…Until now. A few weeks back we watched A New Hope (*we* wanted to watch it, he could go do something else if he wanted) and he stayed through the whole thing. Then over the weekend we asked if he wanted to watch “the next Star Wars movie,” and he did. That night I read him the two ROTJ stories out of the 5-minute Star Wars book to assure him that yes, things do get better for the good guys. He also had questions about why Darth Vader started to follow the dark side. Tonight, he asked to watch the next movie, and while we didn’t have time for the whole thing, we suggested we could watch up through the rescue from Jabba’s palace. Paused at takeoff from Tattooine, no freak-outs. We’re going to pick up where we left off tomorrow night!
Toy Story Jedi at WonderCon
Mercs of Arrendelle (and the Southern Isles)
Mercs of Arrendelle (and the Southern Isles)
Nothing says “Christmas” quite like a platoon of Stormtroopers in parade formation.
Nothing says “Christmas” quite like a platoon of Stormtroopers in parade formation. #starwars