{"id":104131,"date":"2016-04-23T01:50:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T01:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/23\/cumaeansibyl-cumaeansibyl-c-3po-to-han-solo\/"},"modified":"2016-04-23T01:50:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T01:50:33","slug":"cumaeansibyl-cumaeansibyl-c-3po-to-han-solo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/23\/cumaeansibyl-cumaeansibyl-c-3po-to-han-solo\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

cumaeansibyl<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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cumaeansibyl<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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C-3PO to Han Solo in Empire: Sir, I don\u2019t know where your ship learned to communicate, but it has the most peculiar dialect.<\/p>\n

this isn\u2019t gone into at all but I like the idea that the Falcon, bashed together from illegal aftermarket parts, familiar with all corners of the galaxy but with no real home, speaks her own patois that works reasonably well everywhere rather than learning several formal machine languages (I imagine there are relatively few of those compared to the range of lifeforms\u2019 languages, but still)<\/p>\n

3PO is fluent in over six million forms of communication, so he\u2019s surely familiar with various pidgins, creoles, and so on, but if the Falcon\u2019s sort of created one for herself then obviously translating it will be a more involved job<\/p>\n

protocol droids probably have algorithms for parsing pidgins and creoles by identifying the parent languages and predicting how the language will behave based on the parents\u2019 vocabulary\/grammar and the general processes of creole formation<\/p>\n

I like the idea of the Falcon getting impatient with 3PO because he keeps asking her to repeat herself and she\u2019s like who the hell are you and why can\u2019t you understand plain talk when you hear it<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

revisiting this thought: imagine Rey, who has met about a thousand different droids and computers and learned to speak whatever language they speak<\/p>\n

she starts talking to the Falcon\u2019s computer because something is broken, again, and it takes her all of five minutes to pick up the peculiar dialect because it\u2019s similar to one common among smugglers\u2019 ships she\u2019s repaired, though it has a few idiosyncracies that are new to her\u00a0(in part because it\u2019s honestly just older than most things she\u2019s run into)<\/p>\n

soon enough instead of plugging in a droid to find out what\u2019s wrong she\u2019s just yelling at the Falcon from upside down in a compartment full of sparks and the Falcon is insulting her repair skills and insinuating some really unpleasant things about her parentage and Rey\u2019s like JUST TELL ME WHERE THE SHORT IS ALREADY YOU CAN TRASH-TALK ME WHEN YOUR CIRCUITRY\u2019S NOT SETTING ME ON FIRE<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

cumaeansibyl: cumaeansibyl: C-3PO to Han Solo in Empire: Sir, I don\u2019t know where your ship learned to communicate, but it has the most peculiar dialect. this isn\u2019t gone into at all but I like the idea that the Falcon, bashed together from illegal aftermarket parts, familiar with all corners of the galaxy but with no … <\/p>\n

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