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Andres Vorstal

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Re: A few drawings

Those wacky nazis... I mean they were funny enough to make an American prime-time sitcom out of their wacky exploits. Who here hasn't laughed there way to the Arbeitslager watching re-runs of Hogan's Heroes.

Before the bashing begins: I hate Hogan's Heroes for making light of the Nazis. From what I can tell I had family on three sides of that conflict and it sucks. I do however believe that if we forget history we are doomed to repeat it, and that includes using it as reference for Sci-Fi movies. George Lucas obviously used some WWII references while making Star Wars. I honestly don't care if you call something "Volkssturm" because you speak German or because it sounds "cool."

In my game I can find a way to reconcile a German name. I can find a way to reconcile a South African character name and accent. I can even find a way to reconcile a character patterned after Charlie Sheen in a low budget movie about car thieves. It's a game. That's what we do. If we learn about history that's a (huge) bonus, but I'm here to have fun, and I think the rest of you are too.

OK, rant mode is off now. The nose art rocks. Seriously. Call these things what you want. I'll still say it rocks. Within reason. Just 'cause Lucas wrote the damn thing in English doesn't mean we can't pilfer from a few other earth languages now and then right?

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5/26/2006, 11:20 pm  
 
Uncle Servo

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Andres Vorstal wrote:
OK, rant mode is off now. The nose art rocks. Seriously. Call these things what you want. I'll still say it rocks. Within reason. Just 'cause Lucas wrote the damn thing in English doesn't mean we can't pilfer from a few other earth languages now and then right?

Hey, even some of the alien languages are in reality obscure Earth ones -- particularly Ewokese and Sullustan (from Asia and Africa respectively, but I can't remember precisely).
5/27/2006, 8:21 pm  
 
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Ewokese is a bastard mix of Tibetan, Kalmuck and Lakota. Sullustan is based on a Kenyan dialect called Hyah. Some of the lines were merely gibberish, but a number were direct translations of the English script into Hyah, a fact that amused audiences in Nairobi when Jedi was released there. The man who voiced Nien Nunb, a Kenyan named Kipsang Rotich, became a national celebrity as a result.

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5/27/2006, 9:35 pm  
 
The VOID
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Vordarian, would you be so kind to repost your work in the other forum? I am also very eager to see, if you did anything new. Darn, where is a bouncing smiley, when you need one? emoticon

I am closing the topic here then.

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