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Post #928877

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mapet318
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Star Wars vs. A New Hope - Which do you say and why?
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Date created
13-Apr-2016, 5:48 PM

CatBus said:

mapet318 said:

I call it “A New Hope” or “Episode IV” because nobody outside of a minority of fanboys cares what it’s called.

I’d try to parse this sentence in a way that isn’t unintentionally self-deprecating, but why?

My point was that most people who I come across have always known ANH as ANH or Episode IV, and not just “Star Wars”. So to call it “Star Wars” would then require me to give them the whole run-down of it being given a subtitle and episode number and whatnot. Using “Episode IV” just makes it easy to identify what you’re talking about to everybody. I could call it “Star Wars: The Adventures of Owen Lars’s Charred Corpse” and it would be a better description than just “Star Wars”. And I seriously can’t imagine anyone in real life getting fussy about word choice.