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twooffour
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What do you LIKE about the Prequels?
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11-Jul-2011, 8:12 PM

Gaffer Tape said:

EDIT: You know what? Nevermind. You're just not worth it.

But, by the way, Nien Nunb speaks an actual African language.  Has that ever pulled you out of the movie?  Have you ever spent serious time contemplating why there are Africans in space?  Or did you just accept it?

Hehe - too late!
Next time, read the post you're replying to, then maybe you won't have to get embarassed and delete your comment.


EDIT:
Ah, the vagina face guy... well, the question is, did they try to pass him for an African in space, or were they just too lazy to make up another gibberish alien language like the "Huttish", so they just pieced together words from an actual African language in hope no one would notice?

Or was it maybe some kind of inside gag? Like, a linguistic bonus?

I mean, very obviously, someone who maybe knows 2-3 European languages, and is otherwise familiar with the "sound" of other languages, or language groups, as well as popular ethnic stereotypes, will perceive Vagina Face Guy way differently from a linguistics expert, or a native... African... just watching their own native language (whatever it is) getting raped into pieces in order to be sold as "foreign, lol" to the dumb Cola drinking Americans?
There might be some annoyance involved (some offense, if you're dense), or maybe some amusment, but the average person will just perceive it as: foreign gibberish. Which was the main intent from the get go.


The Neimoidians, on the other hand, were given immediately recognizeable "Asian" accents that the vast majority of the audiences would easily identify as... "Asian".

The two examples aren't even comparable.