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Aug 18, 2017 - 9:55 AM
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Grecchus
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I would say yed-dee, like Yeti, but with a 'y' for a 'j' and a 't' for a 'd'. I was most disconcerted to find it actually sounds like ghed-dai or jed-dai. It is fair to say, I think, that was not too great a mangling of the terminology to which I was initially disposed.
To think there might have been something called "Revenge Of The Yeti," although, the poor creature in question appears to be just as mythical as the Force user cult, despite 'returning' to the fray a great many times. Indeed, the ESB wampa is the very endorsement of the Yeti in all but name. And I won't even begin to try to make distinctions between the Yeti and Sasquatch, also known as Bigfoot, or, the Abominable Snowman . . .
http://www.newsweek.com/bigfoot-sasquatch-yeti-legend-myth-403932
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Who can tell, with interplanetary fantasy?! It's all up for grabs.
But you probably, like lots of us, did Latin at school, and with an Oxford pronunciation that's what it'd look like .... 'Yedee'.
But Oxford, Cambridge, and Italianate pronunciations of Latin are used more or less interchangeably anyhow. In the new 'Ben-Hur' tracklistings, people will mostly say, 'Anno Dominee' but 'Adoration of the Mayjai'. Which latter could be Magee, but it sounds like Maggie.
And over in the US you get every style mixed. Hell, those buggers in a galaxy far away certainly didn't speak English anyhow, let alone Latin.
One interesting thing about SW was that the place names ('Tatooine' for example), sounded genuinely linguistic, almost Anglo-Saxon, instead of the mysterious GREEK names that sci-fi always gives them! Those aliens seem to be well attuned to earthly astrophysics nomenclature!
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Remember '1066 and All That'?
That states that when Julius Caesar famously stated, 'Veni, Vidi: Vici', it enraged the ancient Britons so much because they thought he was calling them 'weeny, weedy and weaky', so they sent him packing back to Gaul.
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Aug 18, 2017 - 10:39 AM
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Grecchus
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Remember '1066 and All That'?
That states that when Julius Caesar famously stated, 'Veni, Vidi: Vici', it enraged the ancient Britons so much because they thought he was calling them 'weeny, weedy and weaky', so they sent him packing back to Gaul.
Venerable times . . . hee, hee. 
Is Star Wars older than you?
I'm a bit older. I saw it at the Odeon, Leicester Square, Londinium,.
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Did they, therefore, consult extensively on the assumed pronunciation of the word, which when thrust up the waiting world would, thereafter, stick through thick and thin?
You can bet they did. The whole thing is from the Joseph Campbell school of mythic template writing, but the outward 'Maguffins' were totally eclectic in keeping with that.
A lot of Japanese imagery was in the art direction, maybe because of the Lucas and Spielberg generation early obsession with Kurosawa. Darth Vader's hat is a Samurai Kabuto, the light sabres are katanas, and Obi Wan Kenobi is clearly Japanese in conception. In fact an 'obi' is a Samurai belt. The stormtroopers are Nazi-ish, and Moss Eisley sounds like a suburb of Liverpool, chuck. Jedi is clearly Japanese. Whereas 'Yeddee' would be Israelite.
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