lighsabers

i cant see why it really matters how we spell it, we all know what each other mean whether it is spelt ER or RE.

You haven't been around here long, you'll get used to Ush and his pedantic ways. 😄

I meant the fencing at no point depends on blade power. The point ALWAYS beats the edge! Even with a 360 blade. Fecning wins.

Well, give me a Lightsaber over a Foil anytime. 😂

I think I am assuming we would both be using lightsabres. I have no intention of doing a Blackadder impression...

Sabre fencing's wierd as I remeber, you can poke with the end, you can slash with any part of the foiable ond you can slash with only half of the lower part of the blade, or somethin like that. Nevertheless, sabre fencing would be more akin to lightsabre fighting than foil or epee fencing.

Yeah, but if you used those sabres (and to be honest, they aren't literal sabres either) in 'real' life you would use epee or foil, because all you need is the reach, the centre, and a poke. Slashes would be virtually useless.

Well, from a weapon which is square in cross section, anyway (bloody hurts if you get smacked though).

Sabre fencing is DAMN vicious...

But in Lightsaber fights there seems to be a lot of slashing, or was that your point..?

Very much so. If it was 'real' (I always put that in quote marks because it is such a weird idea) there would be no such slashes, and very little movement- it would be very close to the orinal ANH fight.

Point it, that wouldn't look a 1/10th as good. In ESB and ROTJ they used an attractive but random style. Nich Gillard has taken things to a new level entirely. Good stuff.

Yeah, he totally reinventyed Lightsaber duesl and battles. I can't wait to see what he has come up with for Episode-II.

well if you guys want to argue about the spelling of sabre/er what about the spelling of colour

dont americans spell it color

also lets bring in

aluminum

that should start a war

I already said that.....

Hey ush why do you get so upset when people spell it differently???

Actually, in hindsight, I would suggest that the word LIGHTSABER is a new word, invented by Lucas to fulfil a need within his movies, and can therefore be spelt anyway Lucas and his companies choose.

Therefore LIGHTSABER or LIGHTSABRE are perfectly valid, whilst Light Saber and Light Sabre may or may not be.

Just a thought that occured to me last night.

As I made VERY clear before I raised the point- and I ask that people do me the courtesy of reading my posts before they criticise me- my point about spelling was not some attempt to override US spellings that are perfectly acceptable in an American production.

My point was that even in America Sabers and sabres are different things, and lightsabres were always intended to be the latter.

I still believe this to be true, thoug RC's idea is not a bad one, esexcially as if pushed I have to admit that they are not sabres either, because they are too long. They are more like sabres than sabers, but even so.

I am loathed to bring this up in light of your approval of my idea, but how do you KNOW they were meant to be that way???

Oh, an people NEVER read posts properly, haven't you notived. 😂

How do I know they were meant to be the latter? Because he spelt them that way and because he was using sabre in the tradtional 'type of sword' sense, which is spelt -re not -er

But what if he made a spelling mistake and did mean it the other way. Then when he realised his mistake, he changed it when he wrote ROTJ...

It's just a thought, but you never know...