Posted on 05/18/2002 11:23:03 PM PDT by codebreaker
Edited on 05/07/2004 7:08:50 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Have either of you seen the Jar-Jar Binks language translation site? It will automatically translate anything into Gungan for you. I'm going to go see, if it still exists.
I've always thought he lifted the storyline generally from the bible.
Here we go
When a Navajo code talker received a message, what he heard was a string of seemingly unrelated Navajo words. The code talker first had to translate each Navajo word into its English equivalent. Then he used only the first letter of the English equivalent in spelling an English word. Thus, the Navajo words "wol-la-chee" (ant), "be-la-sana" (apple) and "tse-nill" (axe) all stood for the letter "a." One way to say the word "Navy" in Navajo code would be "tsah (needle) wol-la-chee (ant) ah-keh-di- glini (victor) tsah-ah-dzoh (yucca)."
Most letters had more than one Navajo word representing them. Not all words had to be spelled out letter by letter. The developers of the original code assigned Navajo words to represent about 450 frequently used military terms that did not exist in the Navajo language. Several examples: "besh- lo" (iron fish) meant "submarine," "dah-he- tih-hi" (hummingbird) meant "fighter plane" and "debeh-li-zine" (black street) meant "squad."
The 'Star Wars Name Generator' is working and so is a completely unrelated 'Dialectizer' just for fun.
4fr Rechi Modregal of Etodolac wishes 'The Force' be with you all. ;^)
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I just might have to try running some of Jar-Jar Bink's lines through the 'Dialectizer' to see what happens.
LOL.
That's a good comparison. When I first saw him, my thought was that he was a SW rendition of Gilligan.
The first two (4 and 5) were probably geared more towards (young) adults, but ROTJ (6) went straight for the kiddie jugular. TPM (1) was also a huge kiddie flick, though I actually enjoyed it more than AoTC (2) on many levels.
On Star Wars, I am certain of only two things: 1) Kids love the movies and 2) adults love to overanalyze them.
Good point. People had been feeding off Lucas' films for years before coming back to make more films. Then when he dips from his own well and people cry "Plagarism! Rip-off!"
The sad thing is that with the last two films, Lucas pushed the bounds of movie-making by creating and rendering his backgrounds and sets digitally. It's not new to have digital effects, but his company, ILM, keeps pioneering the effects that are used and broadening the tasks for which such effects are used. No one notices this.
Another sad thing is that NO ONE even remarks on the music that John Williams has created for this series anymore. Apart from the effects, it is one of the facets of these films that is consistent in its excellence. His music is the mortar that holds these movies together and hardly anyone cares.
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