# Pronunciation problem (special guest appearance: Darth Vader)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciation-problem-special-guest-appearance-darth-vader/10768
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [April 20, 2000, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciation-problem-special-guest-appearance-darth-vader/10768 "2000-04-20T07:49:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2000, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciation-problem-special-guest-appearance-darth-vader/10768/1 "2000-04-20T07:49:00Z")
I want to change my sig to the sound of Darth Vader breathing.
Anyone know how to spell that?
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### Author:  [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2000, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciation-problem-special-guest-appearance-darth-vader/10768/2 "2000-04-20T11:51:00Z")
hhhhhhhhhhhhoooch whhhhhhhhhhoooo
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### Author:  [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2000, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciation-problem-special-guest-appearance-darth-vader/10768/3 "2000-04-20T13:45:00Z")
What is the sound of one Darth Vader breathing?
If Darth Vader breathed in a forest, and there were no one there to hear it, would the trees fall?
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2000, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciation-problem-special-guest-appearance-darth-vader/10768/4 "2000-04-20T13:58:00Z")
> [@](#):
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> Originally posted by CKDextHavn:
> \*\*What is the sound of one Darth Vader breathing?
>
> If Darth Vader breathed in a forest, and there were no one there to hear it, would the trees fall?\*\*
**CK** : I really think these questions you pose would really be more appropriate in GD.
::ducks and runs away to MPSIMS like a little girl::
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Sala, can’t you count?!? I said NO camels! That’s FIVE camels!
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### Author:  [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2000, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciation-problem-special-guest-appearance-darth-vader/10768/5 "2000-04-20T14:41:00Z")
wwwwhhhooooooooo perrrrrrrrrrrr
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### Author:  [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2000, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciation-problem-special-guest-appearance-darth-vader/10768/6 "2000-04-20T16:03:00Z")
How bout:
::: Darth Vader-like wheeze :::
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### Author:  [@PVonAtark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PVonAtark)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2000, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciation-problem-special-guest-appearance-darth-vader/10768/7 "2000-04-20T16:20:00Z")
Better yet,
How about VaderBreath.wav (go find it)
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“All men spoke of his prowess…except for a couple of people in his home village who though he was a liar, and quite a lot of other people who had never really heard of him.” -Terry Prachett - The Light Fantastic
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### Author:  [@CheapBastid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheapBastid)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2000, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciation-problem-special-guest-appearance-darth-vader/10768/8 "2000-04-20T16:35:00Z")
My version:
_Koohhh-Kuuhhh,Koohhh-Kuuhhh,Koohhh-Kuuhhh…_
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### Author:  [@Turpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turpentine)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2000, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciation-problem-special-guest-appearance-darth-vader/10768/9 "2000-04-20T16:43:00Z")
I always just thought it was
HOOOOOOOOOOOOHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHOOOOOOOOOOOHAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
Um- I always wondered a similar thing -
how do you spell the sound of a bowling ball hitting the pins?
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2000, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciation-problem-special-guest-appearance-darth-vader/10768/10 "2000-04-20T21:02:00Z")
Whatever you decide on, PLEASE don’t make it longer than about 15 characters, otherwise it royally screws up the formatting. The page gets really wide and strange-looking on the left 'cause it has to accommodate the LONNNNNNG name.
Check out the user name “Bedboywhoforgothispassword…doh”, in the Archives. Also “ORION\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*ORION”.
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“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!” - the White Queen
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2000, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciation-problem-special-guest-appearance-darth-vader/10768/11 "2000-04-20T21:04:00Z")
Oh, you said your sig. Never mind.
Although there is a thread in the Pit dealing with what some people feel is overlong sigs.
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“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!” - the White Queen
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### Author:  [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2000, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciation-problem-special-guest-appearance-darth-vader/10768/12 "2000-04-20T22:20:00Z")
> [@](#):
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> HOOOOOOOOHAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHOOOOOOOHAAAAAAAAAA.
## Sounds more like Busta Rhymes.
**Gypsy** : Tom, I don’t get you.
**Tom Servo** : Nobody does. I’m the wind, baby.
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### Author:  [@Dystopos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dystopos)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2000, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciation-problem-special-guest-appearance-darth-vader/10768/13 "2000-04-21T03:56:00Z")
It’s not a pronunciation problem at all, it’s an onomatopoeic dilemma.
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### Author:  [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2000, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciation-problem-special-guest-appearance-darth-vader/10768/14 "2000-04-29T07:35:55Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*\*
> It’s not a pronunciation problem at all, it’s an onomatopoeic dilemma.
> \*\*
I stand corrected. I oversimplified the problem to get a better response.
_bows head in an all-too-obvious attempt to gain forgiveness_
And btw I wasn’t being serious here…
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### Author:  [@lswote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lswote)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2000, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciation-problem-special-guest-appearance-darth-vader/10768/15 "2000-04-29T12:04:29Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*\*
> It’s not a pronunciation problem at all, it’s an onomatopoeic dilemma.
> \*\*
Oh that reminds me “Oh I gotta pee-a”. Be right back. 😉
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### Author:  [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2000, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciation-problem-special-guest-appearance-darth-vader/10768/16 "2000-04-29T13:19:17Z")
The sound of Darth Vader breathing should be spelled exactly the same way as the sound of an obscene phone call.
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2000, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciation-problem-special-guest-appearance-darth-vader/10768/17 "2000-04-29T14:53:47Z")
I think this will work just fun, and will get you a lot of attention also.
in… out… in… out… in… out…