Sluggo said:
I get what you are saying, but it is wrong. Why would a sandperson know English?

I chalked that up to sloppiness on Lucas' part, actually.

I'm not trying to argue that it is a sandperson necessarily; I'm only saying that that was my initial assumption, which I've never really questioned until now. It doesn't sound a thing like Liam Neeson's voice. It does sound, to my ears, an awful lot like someone whose life is being snuffed out by a lightsaber. That the tusken would be speaking english (or basic, if you prefer) is inconsistent, to be sure, but that's true of the PT as a whole.