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Left-Handed Explanation for accents in the PT

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Now this is not to be an official theory; I am not a blind PT fanatic (evident if you have read some of my posts), but want to suggest something.

I think the reason that the aliens have accents in the PT is because the Galactic Republic was more politically cohesive than the Empire, because there was a tighter economic system that reqires a universal language for interplanetary trade, diplomacy, and communication. 35 years later, the EMpire is not capable of maintaining economic stability due to the Rebel Alliance and the Galactic civil war, so there has been a regress into a more localized cultural system in which all social activities are not on a galactic scale.

Or the Occam's razor explanation was to dumb down the film into racist stereotypes by using accents, and make it more marketable to children.
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A simpler one is that: aliens are exotic creatures with accents. Humans are not. In the OT, we mostly see humans, while in the PT we see many aliens. Hence the PT has lots of accents. All the aliens in the OT--Yoda, Bib Fortuna, Greedo, Jabba, etc--have accents of some kind, they just arent plentiful in number as in the PT.
Now, how to account for the fact that the Empire developed its own internal British accent is another thing...
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Also, the main alien characters in the OT spoke their own language, rather than Basic, and it was represented through subtitles. There are so many different species and examples in the PT that if they had everyone speak an alien language, nearly all the movie would be in subtitles, and most of the audience wouldn't put up with that.

Hehe, nice Occam's razor comment.

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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Also, the main alien characters in the OT spoke their own language, rather than Basic, and it was represented through subtitles. There are so many different species and examples in the PT that if they had everyone speak an alien language, nearly all the movie would be in subtitles, and most of the audience wouldn't put up with that.

Hehe, nice Occam's razor comment.



Do you find it amazing, like I do, that Han Solo apparently understood the Common Language, Wookie Language, and Huttese?
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i think it makes sense for him to. He delt with all three languages on a regular basis thgouh his partnership with Chewie & his job as a smuggler. It's not unusual to meet someone who can at least understand another language if they regularly deal with it (an example being many people who live in the southwest & are native english speakers can at least understand a fair amount of spanish just by being in contact with so much of it).

Plus, it shows he's not some unitelligent drug runner, but a cunning/streetsmart smuggler.
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Originally posted by: BeeJay
Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Also, the main alien characters in the OT spoke their own language, rather than Basic, and it was represented through subtitles. There are so many different species and examples in the PT that if they had everyone speak an alien language, nearly all the movie would be in subtitles, and most of the audience wouldn't put up with that.

Hehe, nice Occam's razor comment.



Do you find it amazing, like I do, that Han Solo apparently understood the Common Language, Wookie Language, and Huttese?


Not really. He's a smuggler by trade, so he needs to know a lot of dialects. Huttese is one of the major languages of the underworld, so it's no wonder he knows that one. Wookiee is a bit more complex obviously, but given enough time he probably figured out what most of it meant.
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Yes, for a smuggler, he is quite the linguist. But maybe that's why.

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C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Back to the PT, In TPM there are three alien species that have accents, and only Huttese is spoken as the foreign language within the movie. By AOTC, there is some Geonosian, and by ROTS there is little or no foreign language. So there arent enogh species in the entire PT to justify using (presumably ethnic) accents.

It is interesting to note that Han never speaks aforeign language, but only interprets it.
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Yeah, I find it more interesting that it seems every alien race can interpret any other language thrown at them.

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C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Is it cannon to have univeral translators in the SW universe? I thought I read in one of the books they had those like in Star Trek. Of course, that would be just to damn convenient wouldn't it? Oh wait... they have babblefish!
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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Yeah, I find it more interesting that it seems every alien race can interpret any other language thrown at them.


It seems to me that that the vast majority simply speak their native language, but they all understand Basic (which, AFIAIK, is foreign as well, its just translated to English for our ease). When I went through Europe I was hard pressed to find someone who didn't understand English (useful... as I only know German).

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