Heh, like “Lou Rawl’s Lawyer” - I can totally hear Chewie sayin’ that. And shit.
There’s an SNL skit in there somewhere.
Haven’t seen you in a bit, **Kapowz **- how they hangin’?
How Chewy got his name. There was once a man named Bacca, He was strolling along a sidewalk one day when…
I’ll move this from MPSIMS to Cafe Society and let those mods deal with the inanity and shit.
Oh wait…
twickster, MPSIMS/Cafe Society moderator
I don’t care what you smell; just get in there.
And stuff.
I suspect that Chewbacca is responsible for most cattle mutilations. And shit.
Hmm… it would seem that if another species that can pronounce the name is responsible for giving Wookies their names, that it would suggest a “pet/owner” type of relationship. For example, my cats could never pronounce anything close to “Ashes” or “Orion” or “Tishiba.” And if they had the mental capacity to name each other, would probably name each other something like “mrowr-hiss.” Among humans, we have variations in different languages (Sean for John), but both are pronounceable among humans. It’s not that you’d translate one language and substitute the name John for every Sean you’d see, you’d just continue to say “Sean.” So, I doubt that “Chewbacca” is just a translation of something a Wookie could say.
I think Han and Chewie just picked names for each other that each could pronounce. Han called Chewie “Chewie” and Chewie called Han “Rarrwr”
Now the question is why did Han pick “Chewbacca?” Maybe that’s a word a different species used as a common name. Or maybe Han decided to name Chewie after the first thing he saw, a can of chewing tobacco.
In that case, which has been my contention actually, we don’t really know the Wookie’s name. We only know what others call him.
Yeah, I should have acknowledged I was basically agreeing with you.
Given that Yoda calls Chewbacca, or a Wookie who looks like Chewbacca, Chewbacca, long before the events of Star Wars, it seems unlikely that Han coined the name.
Ok, it was Yoda who found the can of chewing tobacco.
I loved the fact that Attichitcuk (Chewbacca’s father) was nicknamed “Itchy”, and Lumpawaroo (Chewbacca’s son) was nicknamed “Lumpy”. Chewie, Itchy, Lumpy…sounds like symptoms of a skin disorder, or something.
And shit.
OP is off his meds.
Or on them, I dunno…
so where did they get Wookie(s) from?
"There once was a wookie from Oz
And shit.
when’s the next poetry workshop?
Ever notice how Han Solo can understand everything Chewbacca says? That’s because he’s made the effort to learn Wookiee, wherein every grunt and growl corresponds to a human-pronounceable syllable.
“Rowr” = "Chew; “aalllll” = “bac”; “aaaazzz” = “ca”
“Rowryaalllllaaaazzz” = “Chewbacca”
It’s all very simple, really. And shit.
I’m reminded that in American Sign Language, which doesn’t follow the syntax of spoken American English, rather than fingerspelling a person’s name every time they’re referred to, which is difficult and disrupts the flow of conversation, simple name signs are created, usually something associated with the first letter of the person’s name. So in a sense, the name is “translated” into ASL and that translation is used thereafter.
So with Han and Chewie, Han understands Wookiee but doesn’t speak it, and conversely, Chewbacca understands Han’s language (Standard/English/whatever it’s called in that galaxy far far away) but doesn’t speak it. So it’s possible that Han does indeed translate Chewie’s Wookiee name into its Standard counterpart, which is Chewbacca, because he (and other humanoids) can’t say it in Wookiee.
And shit.
Did I just go off on a languages tangent in a Super Kaplowzer thread and shit?
I still think Chewbacca is just an idiot savant. Really does make sense.
Where do live? I would love to see Star Wars on the big screen.
So who is the “wannabe-rasta-idiot”? Nien Nunb?
That’s the same movie as the one with the “whimperlings”.