# Quick Star Wars Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 15, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-star-wars-question/844888 "2019-12-15T13:43:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-star-wars-question/844888/21 "2019-12-17T02:05:30Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > One of the weird inconsistencies in Star Wars is they established an alphabet as their default basic language, called Aurebesh, but numbers are all still the same as ours. Then they refer to ships called X-Wings even though Aurebesh has no X. The SW EU material, on the whole, isn’t exactly written by the most imaginitive authour in science fiction. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-star-wars-question/844888/22 "2019-12-17T02:45:12Z")
Wrong thread. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-star-wars-question/844888/23 "2019-12-17T05:05:33Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > By which you mean the funniest line in Robot Chicken, or the funniest line in Star Wars? Are you implying that Robot Chicken is canonical Star Wars? Because I can get behind that. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-star-wars-question/844888/24 "2019-12-17T12:28:03Z")
I think that even a language which doesn’t have a letter X would probably still have some name for that shape. It’s a pretty basic shape that sees a lot of use. Now, B-wing, for that I’ve got nothing. Nor do I understand why they changed the written language on-screen, when they’re leaving the spoken dialog in English. Obviously they’re translating spoken Basic into English for the convenience of audiences-- Why can’t they be doing the same thing for writing? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-star-wars-question/844888/25 "2019-12-21T22:04:47Z")
Just how long ago does the Star Wars story take place? And in what galaxy, how far away? Here’s my take: The story occurs right here in the Milky Way Galaxy, at a time in the distant future when all that space-travel technology exists. But the story is being told by a narrator at some time even more distant in the future, and from a far-away galaxy. Thus, “A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away” really refers to our own futuristic galaxy. And one of the planets was Earth, although not mentioned in the story. But Earth people had populated the galaxy. This also explains the several Earthly-sounding names (Calrissian? Akbar? Falcon?) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-star-wars-question/844888/26 "2019-12-21T22:12:31Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > This also explains the several Earthly-sounding names (Calrissian? Akbar? Falcon?) Luke? Owen? Ben? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-star-wars-question/844888/27 "2019-12-30T19:58:09Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > He did. If you can ever get a chance to see the original print of the movie (I was lucky enough to see it on the big screen at a charity event in 93 or 94) he says Carrie plain as day. They apparently muddied the audio in future prints. You can tell it is an original print because it doesn’t have 3P0’s narration about the tractor beam. Here’s the tweet I was thinking of… > He says (now at least) what you’re hearing is “There she…” as in “There she is.” Granted, it’s just his word, but I don’t know that any of us could hear There she vs. Carrie in that format OR that a (reasonably) professional actor would accidentally shout an actress’s real name in the middle of filming… esp. when the line was NOT for him to shout Leia there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-star-wars-question/844888.md?page=1)