lighsabers

Like I said, it's an idea. I just figured that as an American production, written by an American, etc.

I can see where you are coming from on the types of Sabre/Saber issue, but I don't know enough about that to comment.

I'm sticking with Saber cos I read a lot of the novels and they spell it that way, even in the UK editions.....

The American Perspective

Just got an email from my web-friend Karen on this one...

From: K.L. Hinson [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 18 May 2001 23:21
To: [email protected]
Subject: SABER

I'm on my way home, but thought I'd tell you in an American dictionary, saber is the usual spelling. Under sabre it says chiefly British variation of saber.

Well, they don't look like curved cavalry blades to me...

But the may they are used? Is that style closer to a slashing cavalary style or a fencing style?

Oh, they are clearly used much more like non-cavalry sabres. Cavalry sabres/sabers are not duelling weapons.

Yeah, but I always fought of dueling as more the fencing style anyway and what we saw in TPM was not fencing IMHO OC. Maybe that's why it got changed?

These are Napoleonic weapons, RC. I think you will find infantry sabres were NOT desinged for poncy fencing (though sabre fencing is anything but poncy; it is vicious). But they WERE desinged for close combat. Cavalry sabres/sabers were not; thwey would probably break in a melee

But those don't concern me, the only weapon that does is the massless, energy bladed weapon of the Jedi Knights.... 😄

I know THAT...

My point is that a saber would never be used in close combat melee. Hence a Jedi weapon would be a sabRE.

OK, George, your wrong, cancel the whole project, you spelt the damn word wrong. 😂

He wrote it, his word is Lore. It's a different Galaxy, we need a copy of their Dictionary to bottom this one out....

It's all translsted into OUR language and meanings! Besides, HE calls them sabRES!

How you figure that. He used Hell as a "bad place"

So he used Saber (either spelling) as a sword os some type.

*Sit's back to watch Ush get even father up his high horse.* 🙄

It's more a stallion than a horse...

Because GL wrote it sabre, that's why.

And subsequently changed it to SABER as well.

Actually, I think we're getting into Shire territory now...

Maybe GL isn't the all-knowing, dictionary correct being we think he is. Perhaps being American, he used the more common American spelling of the word, his knowledge of weapons being more limited than some others', hence the words sabre and saber are interchangeable to him and don't have any relevance to the way in which they are used.

Bearing in mind, for most Jedi, they would probably never use a sab** to cut someone down anyway, they'd probably win the battle through use of the Force, or by deflecting blaster shots back at the enemy. Name a weapon we have which is used like that, the closest I can think of is a tennis raquet.

Oddlu enough, tennis is one of the 'styles' Nick Gillard used in his combat style...

Yeah, that Obi Wan kenobi has a wicked backhand and his lob is to die for.... 🤣

That's the thing with lightsabres,whilst many think they can be likened to swordplay we know, they're so different.A lot of the difference in fighting style probably has to do with their being able to cut with any 'edge',so you could swing it whichever way you wanted and cause serious damage.

Exactly why fencing would be good.

How so, neither a fencing foil, nor sabre has a blade that covers the entire 360 degrees of the blade does it?