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How in the world do they speak English?!

posted a year ago by jcdugger (395)
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A galaxy far, far away and most people speak...20th Century English dialect, full with slang and American accents?! Why not French? Or Lebanese? Speaking English seems highly, impossibly unlikely.

[–] MikeCable (1911) a year ago

It's just for our benefit as the viewing audience and it was a mix of American and British production work, and you must have seen the English-speaking version.

You can probably change to different languages on the DVD / Blu-Ray if you wish.

At least they changed the English text that was on the tractor beam controls!

[–] jcdugger (395) a year ago

(It would be impossible for any type of biological being from a galaxy far away to speak ANY Earth-like language.)

[–] MikeCable (1911) a year ago

Well they looked and acted exactly like humans so I assume their insides were the same too.

[–] Galactus03 (4399) a year ago

You know you are an idiot....right?

[–] Magicdave (1004) 9 months ago

How do you know that they would not speak English? Don't forget this story takes place "A Long time ago in a galaxy far far away". Maybe they are our forebearers.

[–] ShadowHunter (814) a year ago

they speak "basic", which like english is a universal language. it would actually make sense in a diverse universe to have a single secondary language to allow communication among 20 million species.

[–] WandererFromYs (2403) a year ago

There are other alien languages spoken in Star Wars. Greedo, Jabba the hut, Chewbacca, R2D2 etc.

Do you really want to watch an entire movie where everyone is speaking made up language? Because I don’t. I’m willing to suspend my disbelief in order to get something that I understand

[–] millsey72 (10914) a year ago

I found it annoying that Chewbacca and the droids languages was not subtitled

[–] ur4196727 (110) a year ago

then you would love the holiday special, with a solid twenty minutes of Wookie talk.

[–] millsey72 (10914) a year ago

I would love to learn some of the Star Wars languages. I studied for several years now the droid language of R2D2. Its very difficult though

[–] aavfreak (3385) a year ago

It wasn't difficult for Rey to understand astromech. And she's a scrapper on a desert planet barely able to get by day to day.

[–] millsey72 (10914) a year ago

Lets give Rey more credit. She is the most powerful life being in the Star Wars universe

[–] Moonglum9 (11320) a year ago

Beep boop bork!

[–] pjl69 (2647) a year ago

Its the same with ancient romans or egyptians speaking english in movies.

I have more problems with extra terrestrial aliens coming down to Earth and speaking fluent english.

[–] Theman (1253) a year ago

Or in Lord if the Rings

[–] Burk48917 (11488) a year ago

Because Americans made the movie.

[–] 123Guy (7827) a year ago

maybe needed more fucking DEI? is that the point? DEI should DIE

[–] SamNoyoun (6008) a year ago

Because English is the only language in the Universe, duh!

[–] mikethemartian (6983) a year ago

They borrowed the universal translator from Starfleet.