Is James Earl Jones the Voice of Your Darth Vader?

22nd of Sep. is official release date in Finland.

 

"a Finnish Track?"
Our dvd's won't be dubbed, if that's what you mean. All we get is subtitles, which is good
Waiting, waiting, waiting...

 

Wll... I Hope to hear of the most amusing translation discrepencies...

But I Guess a Dianooga is a Dianooga no Matter where your from...

 

Don't count on it...
We had this version where Jabba was Tsäbä
Blech.

 

Yeah, but that was a bootleg from Estonia.

 

No, it came from one of the main channels of Finland called Yle on year '96. In the same translation Greedo was Skriidu etc.

 

Maybe YLE had bought a cheap bootleg from Estonia?

 

Does the Finnish Subtitles Account For Jar Jar's "Funny" Way Of Speaking? With Misspellings and the Like?

 

Yes, the 'funny' crap is translated to the subtitles as well. It sounds like an idiot, as it's supposed to.

 

We had this version where Jabba was Tsäbä

Yeah, and Greedo was ''Skriido''.

EDIT: Oops, it was mentioned here already...

 

Any other Name Changes? Or Is Ackbar Ackbar Regaurdless...?

 

If I remember correctly, Ackbar's name wasn't .. modified.

I wouldn't be surprised if there was a version where Ackbar was called Äkbar. Argh!

 

Any other Name Changes? Or Is Ackbar Ackbar Regaurdless...?

It was spelt 'Akbar' in a ROTJ VHS I saw once, but not anywhere else. Yes, it's mostly Ackbar.

 

Jar-Jar's dialogue in the finnish subtitles is a mess.. it's basically a mix of many finnish dialects and some completely made up stuff. At least you can be sure no-one really speaks like that.

Somehow one Donald Duck comic by Don Rosa came to my mind. Space aliens spoke Savo (a dialect spoken in Eastern Finland) in that one. It was really hilarious...

 

What About Toys and Merchandising? Is a B-Wing a B-Wing? A Skiff a Skiff?

How Do You Say "Star Destroyer" in Finnish?

 

The new toys don't come to Finland these days, like the OT Collection. Last wave was the E2 wave in Saga line. E3 toys should come though. B-Wing? Yeah right, like I could buy one of those from Finland. B-Wing is B-Wing but if it's in a book or movie, wing is translated to "siipi", yes, it sounds stupid.

Star Destroyer sounds also much more cooler in English, but again in a book or movie it's "tähtituhooja" (star = tähti, destroyer = tuhooja).

 

How About "Slave 1", "Galactic Empire", "Rebellion"?

 

the (Galactic) Empire - (Galaktinen) Imperiumi
rebellion - kapina
rebel alliance - kapinaliitto

 

Alliance is also "Allianssi".

 

I Have To Say... Star Wars Seems to be the Best Way to Learn a New Language!

How About:

"The Honorable Senator From the Trade Federation..."

 

"Kauppaliiton kunnioitettu senaattori."

What Is The Thing In English 'Cause You Like To Use Capital Letters In Every Word Even In The Middle Of A Sentence?

 

It Is My Own Poetic Way Of Speaking...
I Will Never Stop Doing It...
The Complaints Fuel My Frenzy...

 

This thread seems pretty quiet but I´ll just write anyhow...

Any of our finnish members remember the funny typo there used to be in the subtitles for ESB`s opening crawl..? It said "Kuuma jääplanetta" (hot iceplanet) I was almost expecting it to show up in the translated ESB DVD crawl...

Though its not that uncommon to have typos in the subtitles, but Jabba as Tsäbä was one of those moments where the translators REALL exceeded themselves.

Jar Jar´s subs were somewhat idiotic, but who remembers the subs for Watto? They were in some Finnish dialect (Luuletsie olevas joku Jedi vai?) which I think really worked.

 

"Hot Iceplanet" I had forgotten that!