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On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 15:17:10 -0500,
spam.sc@gmail.com (S. Checker) wrote:
In alt.fan.cecil-adams Hactar <ebenZEROONE@verizon.net> wrote:
S. Checker <spam.sc@gmail.com> wrote:
C3PO translated for R2D2 at some points, like early in the first movie,
but it was pretty clear that Luke could understand it by the middle of
the series. R2D2 clearly could understand human languages, too, so Luke
didn't have to beep back at him. Han Solo understood Wookie evidently as >>> well as whatever language the late Greedo used. I can't remember who
did or didn't speak Huttese but of course he did have a need for a
translator.
I'm pretty sure Han and Jabba communicated too.
So the pretty flyboy actually had a talent for languages then.
It's a platitude that Europeans are better at languages because they
have to be. With all the intelligent aliens ricocheting around the
Star Wars universe, one would expect any seasoned spaceship jockey
to have some proficiency in cross-species communication.
We can retcon this until
the banthas come home, but basically I think they all spoke the main
language of moviedom, Convenience.
AKA "galactic standard," "the common speech," etc. A notion found in a lot of sci-fi and fantasy literature.
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