Darth_Davi posted:If galactic basic isn't English, and Earth doesn't exist in the Star Wars galaxy, how would anyone on Earth know how to translate the journal? If its not English, or, even an Earthly language, there is nobody on Earth that would have been able to decipher the linguistic nuances, nor would anyone from the SW galaxy have been able to pre-translate it for us, as they would have no clue what to translate it to. If its not English, there is simply no way that English, Spanish, French, Chinese, etc would be included among C3PO's six million forms of communication...They wouldn't have been able to translate their work into English, we wouldn't have been able to translate their work into English. We would have just a book, and nothing to compare it with, no other samples, nothing. Galactic Basic has to be rooted in an Earth language, otherwise it would be so completely foreign, we wouldn't have any way to translate it. Essentially, it would be gibberish with no way to decode it.
Darth_Davi posted:Occam's razor. Why does Galactic Basic so closely resemble English? Because it is English. The simplest, best answer is usually correct. Star Wars is a fictional work by a man born and raised in the US, speaking English. The language of Star Wars is going to be his language, because its his mind coming up with it. I have seen all these cockamamie theories about telepathic Whills, the thing being translated on our end or translated on their end, etc...and they all make something so simple far more complex than it has to be. Suggesting that Star Wars was somehow delivered to George Lucas, and he took it to an expert translator, etc makes as much sense as Jeff Goldblum using a MAC to write a virus program to infect a completely alien computer system, somehow miraculously getting his laptop to connect to the alien network, getting his laptop to then upload the virus, and having it work. PURE RUBBISH.
dp4m posted:Rogue_Follower posted:SuperWatto posted:See, the moment any link between the GFFA and Earth becomes canon, is the moment I'm throwing in the towel. No matter how many of the Big 3 die, no matter how often Palpatine or dead heroes come back - this is the one and only thing that can drive me away. QFT x2. The moment LFL gets that stupid, it all goes down hill from there. Well, see you guys then. Since the E.T. aliens are senators and E.T. landed on Earth, there must be a link. Which is why E.T. recognizes Yoda as a Halloween character and says "hooooome" as well.
Rogue_Follower posted:SuperWatto posted:See, the moment any link between the GFFA and Earth becomes canon, is the moment I'm throwing in the towel. No matter how many of the Big 3 die, no matter how often Palpatine or dead heroes come back - this is the one and only thing that can drive me away. QFT x2. The moment LFL gets that stupid, it all goes down hill from there.
SuperWatto posted:See, the moment any link between the GFFA and Earth becomes canon, is the moment I'm throwing in the towel. No matter how many of the Big 3 die, no matter how often Palpatine or dead heroes come back - this is the one and only thing that can drive me away.
LtNOWIS posted: So, Lucas finds a holocron or a big Rakatan style knowledge thing somewhere in the woods, it translates itself automatically, and Lucas decides that he should make films about it. Of course, stuff gets distorted when he actually makes the films (SFX limitations, casting etc.), but we get most of it. There's your explanation. Oh man... what if the Holcron continuity database was an actual holocron?
Ulicus posted:LtNOWIS posted: So, Lucas finds a holocron or a big Rakatan style knowledge thing somewhere in the woods, it translates itself automatically, and Lucas decides that he should make films about it. Of course, stuff gets distorted when he actually makes the films (SFX limitations, casting etc.), but we get most of it. There's your explanation. Oh man... what if the Holcron continuity database was an actual holocron? I love the thought of Lucas, one day, turning to the prequel bashers and saying: "Hey, it's not my fault, that's just the way things went down!"