Eat Choota!

George Lucas has been well known for implanting matieral in his films that triggers subliminal thoughts and actions.

One of his oft repeated phrases is "Eat Choota!" which is screamed with fanatical religious delight and fervour by the Jawas in both Episode I AND IV.

What is this "Choota", and why does George Lucas want us to eat it?

(I was told that this thread belongs in this forum by JCC Mod Katya_Jade)

 

I think you were also told already it's NOT "Eat Choota"...

It's "E Chu Ta"!

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It's an Insult, but I forgot what it means though.

He may help you!

 

It IS "Eat Choota!", it just depends on your upbringing and your skills at interpretation and translation.

 

Did you even read the card?

 

if you've played KOTOR you hear the Twi'leks say E-CHU-TA very very clearly. It IS E Chu Ta!

Just because you have Dooku has your avatar doesn't mean you get to go run around with his ego too... take a chill pill...

 

I. George Lucas has minimal contribution to Star Wars alien lexicon, unless it is a dialect of some sort (i.e., Jar Jar's accent, etc.) in which case he provides the necessary information in the script. Otherwise, it's all up to Ben Burtt (see Behind the Magic CD-Rom). Thus, it wouldn't be George even if there was a "subliminal message" anyway.

II. Ben Burtt derived the Huttese language from the ancient Incan dialect, Quechua. He based many phrases on samples from a language exercise tape. For example, Episode I the phrase "Sebulba tuta Pixelito" is used meaning "Sebulba from Pixelito." The Quechua 'tuta' however used in this phrase: "Imarayku kunan tuta," means "For this night past." Another word is 'chawa.' "Neek me chawa wermo," said Sebulba: "Next time we race," but in Quechua, 'chawa' means 'uncooked.' And although 'tullpa' which means "cooking spot in a kitchen" is not an exact spelling of 'tolpa' (Tolpa da bunky dunko=Then you can go home) the pronunciation is identical. Thus we can gather that Quechua is not Huttese itself but it is a model Ben Burtt used for the style and sound of Huttese. According to some sources, the scene where Greedo encounters Han Solo at the cantina, Greedo actually says something akin to, "I love your big blue eyes." Thus, Ben Burtt takes immense time to create and perfect such a language (see Galactic Phrase Guide), and everything said in an alien language in the films has a meaning-- a meaning in Basic, not in a "subliminal message".

III. An interesting note from Terry Brooks' novelization of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is that Watto is described as switching to Huttese because it was the only language he knew in which he could use alot of derogatory words while angry with Anakin for losing a podrace to Sebulba. A Huttese swear phrase can be heard in Episode V, when C-3PO is insulted by another protocol droid with the phrase "E chu ta!" which Ben Burtt goes on to say the translation is not printable in his book.


Thus, your assumption is incorrect. "E chu ta!" is a Huttese word, not translatable into Basic, and not a subliminal message by George Lucas, considering he had little input in the first place.


Of course, if you'd like to be stubborn, continue on with a conspiracy theory, though it will only show that you are desperate to invent something rather than discover it.



Ken Kenobi- And you have a nice day

 

E Chu Ta = "I wouldn't go in there if I were you, it's full of stormtroopers."

 

LOL

E Chu Ta = "Big white guys with blasters are inside this room. Proceed with caution."

 

I'm going to side with The Gatherer, it's Eat Choota.

 

I'm also going with The Gatherer, it's Eat Choota!

"Hail to the King, baby"

 

By the by, the jawas in TPM were not saying 'E chu ta,' they were saying 'Utinni.'

But you were close!

 

Utinni = "Wow, look at that."

 

But wait, if we're going by this method, wasn't "Utinni" it was "Ewww, teenie."





Ken Kenobi- And you have a nice day

 

They're talking about your manhood again?