You'd think they'd be able to pronounce each others names right...

Why is name pronunciation so inconsistant in Star Wars? Are the names that hard? Is everyone just too polite to correct each other?!

For instance, things that annoy me:

Leia as "Lee-uh" ... yeah, that's usually the way this name is pronounced I guess in RL, however she pronounces it "Lay-uh", and so when anyone says "Lee-uh" it seems out of place.

Han as in "Hand" ... *shudders* Not only is it wrong, but it just sounds stupid GL even pronounces it more this way I think! The name Hans is pronounced the way Harrison pronounces Han in ANH. Yet people throughout pronounce it differently.

Obi-Wan as "Obi-One" ... please note that 'Wan' is a distinct 'Wan' sound or 'Wahn' even but never 'One'. Yet everyone gets this one wrong

Any others you can think of? Am I the only one this annoys?

-sj loves kevin spacey

 

Or the all time great Coruscant, everyone has there own way.

 

I hadn't noticed people pronouncing 'Coruscant' in really different ways... I know it was a big deal when it was just written but I don't think so in the movies. Personally, I always pronounced it 'Cur-uh-sant' which is pretty much the way they say it in the films.

-sj loves kevin spacey

 

I guess it's just all in the way people interpret one's name. Over the years with my last name I could count over 20 different ways it has been said. The only time mispronounced names have ever bothered me in SW was with Leia's name.


And like that...he's gone.

 

well, general dodanna said lee-uh.and sence it was the very first movie,myabe they just didn't bother to change it it was funny when lando said haan and I think the variation of obi-wan was just the way qui-gon pronoused it "obi-waan" (maybe sence he has a irish accsent in real life)

that's my oppinion

 

Nobody ever gets my name right the first time. Their tricked by the light "o", or the heavy "e" at the end. It annoys me.

 

People's names are always subject to different ways of pronouncing.

I remember Coruscant sounding real weird the first time they said it in Ep1...I always pronounced it "Core-us-kant" because I remember hearing it pronounced that way in book-tape back in like 92. BIG shocker...but I've gotten used to it.

The names never bother me, because it's close enough to understand who they are speaking about.

Just one more to put out there...Alderaan?
is it long or short a in raan? ran? rawn?

And how about Qui-Gon's Tatooeine? weird.

 

I pronounce Alderaan as in "Al-dur-awn".

-sj loves kevin spacey

 

I pronounce Alderaan 'all-der-ran'
and Corascant 'core-uh-saunt'

and when they pronounce Han and Leia it drives me crazy.

 

When they pronounce it wrong you mean?

-sj loves kevin spacey

 

I remember how Jake Lloyd said Coruscant in TPM Behind the Scenes featurette. "Ker-skent".


And like that...he's gone.

 

You know, I was just thinking of the name pronuction issue today

It seems only Luke pronounces things the way I'd pronouce them Go Luke!

 

I pronounce Coruscant as 'chorus-scant'.

~aeryn

 

It seems only Luke pronounces things the way I'd pronouce them Go Luke!

Except for that time he said "Carrie" instead of "Leia", boy was he off.


And like that...he's gone.

 

thats always bothered me to, you think they would teach the actors how to say the names

 

But it's a problem when GL says things differently too! He says 'Haan' and 'Gune-gan' and 'Nayboo' He is soooo wrong

SOS Oh come on now, that was an honest mistake! Ok, no it wasn't.

-sj loves kevin spacey

 

well GL is just an over grown ewok, so what do you expect?

Leia

 

yeah, so another thing that is said differently is Carribian. I say 'care-uh-be-an'. ..... my borther is playing with my dog, Trout, and he sounds like a taun taun.... kinda scary.....

Leia

 

Have you ever noticed that some people (especially Lucas) pronounce Dooku as "Dohku." It really annoys me.

 

why does GL pronounce naboo as NAYBOO and geonosians as GEO NOZEON and dooku as DOUGHKOO and padme as PADMAY