PT Mispronunciations......That bugged you the most.

Just because he made them doesn't mean he pronounces them the right way.

 

Alec Guniess pronounces the "Wan" in Obi-Wan as in "Van", but Ewan pronounces the "Wan" as in "One". Even the characters can't pronounce their own names correctly.

 

This is an entire galaxy, remember, with many accents, many different laungaues, many different alien species, and planets and stars and people...Not everyone will say the same name, the same way. Remember, its a whole galaxy of accents out there in SW.


Though I must admit, before the PT came out, I always thought Tatooine was said:

Tatooni. I was only seven...

 

Hayden's Canadian accent slips through from time to time which accounts for his pronunciation of Padme's name.

 

Lets just say its his Mos Espa accent.

 

What the hell is an Aluminum falcon?


Jenga Fett. It took me weeks to get 'jango' down.

 

Hayden's Canadian accent slips through from time to time which accounts for his pronunciation of Padme's name.




Pad Eh May ??

 

Again, I say who said that his way is the wrong way? What proof is there of this? What makes you the authority? Are you the grammer police? Do you know something that I don't? Enlighten me.

 

No, I am not a "grammer police", but I do happen to know that a writer may make a name but not necessarily pronounce it the right way. They have an excuse when it's an accent think, like J.K. Rowling with Voldemort, but when it's something like "Dough-Koo" and "Nay-boo", well that's just wrong, especially if all the actors, who are the ones who translate the script into a movie, and therefore make the official pronounciation, pronounce it a certain way the most.

Sure, Hayden said "Padm-eh" a few times, the Obiwans didn't always say the same kind of things, and Yoda had a few mishaps himself, but most of the time you got what was the right pronounciation from the whole movie.

 

loL! Gl's mispronouncing names is just too funny. It's like "is this guy even paying attention?"

I also don't get why Yoda says "D'koo"

 

And "General Gwevous" or something like that in the council

 

For some reason I pronounced Grievous as (gree-vi-ous). I blame misleading spoilers.

 

So I'm not the only one who noticed that Yoda did an Elmer Fudd impression I always pinned that down to temporary Holonet interference or something.

 

I've noticed that Hayden tends to pronounce "Obi-Wan" with the first syllable stressed: "OH-bee-wan." Listen to him say the line "Because of Obi-Wan?" and you'll hear it.

Not that it really bugs me, though. It's only unique, since most people differ on the third syllable of the name: "Wan," "One," or "Wahn."

 

Hehe, that reminded me of a Star Wars pun in Hot Shots 2:

"We meet again, Oh-Big One."

-(US President about to fight Saddam with Lightsabers )

 

How is it wrong? Show me anything that says it is wrong. Just cause actors pronounce one way does not make that the correct or incorrect way. It's nothing to do with accents. It's a simple thing. I want something tangible.

By whose standards is it right?

 

Because "Nay-boo" is an americanized pronounciation of "Nah-boo", which is the right one because of how the word is structured. Where he got "Dough-koo", who the hell knows. My guess, he was thinking "Hmm, I'm famous, I need to have this "thing" nobody else has. Oh I know, I'll pronounce names different"

The one most often pronounced or initially pronounced by either the character itself ("My name is Padme" "I'm Obi Wan Kenobi") or by a series of characters who pronounce it exactly the same (("I think it was the Count Dooku"))

 

So. It may be an Americanized version, but then again, the story is set in another galaxy. As such, there is no truly correct way to pronounce it.

Or maybe that is how he pronounces it, because it is meant to be that way. Novel idea, isn't it? So again, how is this wrong?

You do know that Lucas isn't anal about these things. So he lets the actors pronounce it however they want. Hence different versions of certain names from different actors/characters. So again, that doesn't mean that his way of pronouncing it is wrong. My point is that there is no real proof, other than opinion which everyone is entitled to, of it being wrong.

 

Still, the point is that what you see is what you get. That's all I'm gonna say.

 

Not always. If that was the case, then pate' would be pronounced the way it spelled. Pate instead of Pa-Tay.

 

I assume you mean the apostrophe is meant to do this: paté ??

If so, then that's a direct change to the word, you add an accent and now you know where the emphasis is. Like the Naboo names (Coré, Padmé, Sabé....)

But that's the accent doing that stuff. And btw, when I said WYSISYG, I meant in the movie, as in See/hear...

 

I must agree with Sinister on the 'hes the creator, he knows how to say it' veiw... but I just have one beef with it. Why has he allowed every single person to pronounce them the way that they have? Maybe it's just not a big deal to him, but I would think he wouldn't just sit back and let them butcher everything. It could even be something like, he meant it to be Nay-boo and dough-ku, but after hearing nah-boo and doo-ku, he decided to let that be right, but never adjusted it to himself... I don't know, thats just my ten cents on it.

On a side note that has allways bothered me... is it just me or did halfway through ESB every single person changed the pronounciation from 'Han' to 'Hahn'?

 

Like ANY director/writer/producer would let the entire cast mispronounce names from the script for THREE FILMS and 5 years! Are u kidding me?

Anyway, you look at it, GL looks foolish. but I don't belive the cast was doing the mispronouncing.

 

Yes, he created his pronounciation, Just like he created Jar Jar Binks

 

I think most of Hayden's pronunciation issues come from the fact that he's Canadian. It just seems to be the stressing of different syllables.