Darth ain't Dutch

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sweersa Senior Member

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queeq Chaos

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sweersa Senior Member

Natuurlijk.

FLEX HECTIC Member

Darth Vader could also mean... DEVIATOR!

He did "deviate" from the Jedi teachings!

(Just a thought!)

queeq Chaos

Let's keep it "just a thought".

Hoe Nederlands/Belgisch ben jij eigenlijk, Sweersa?

sweersa Senior Member

Ik ben half Dutch.

Hybris Jedi Panda

Yes George Lucas named the biggest villain of all times Darth Vader because vader means father in a language he probably had never heard of.

Slash_KMC Retired Helper

Well, when I was little I actually believed he was named after my language ... Guess I was wrong though.

queeq Chaos
Originally posted by sweersa
Ik ben half Dutch.

Cool.

sweersa Senior Member
Originally posted by queeq
Cool.

Yes. Queeq do most people in the Netherlands speak Dutch or is English the norm?

This show looks interesting:

http://www.bnn.nl/page/home/nieuws/59513

They are playing one of my favorite GN'R songs.

Jovan Forbidden Drag

Originally posted by sweersa
Yes. Queeq do most people in the Netherlands speak Dutch or is English the norm?

I have no idea where you get your info, but they, obviously, speak Arabic. 😛

Darth Macabre Grey King of the Debb

Originally posted by Hybris
Yes George Lucas named the biggest villain of all times Darth Vader because vader means father in a language he probably had never heard of.
He hadn't heard of the dutch language before? A bit far fetched, even with the sarcasm.

Jovan Forbidden Drag

not at all... Dutch is spoken by only a few million people.
Granted, Adams from Hitchhiker knew about it and also made Belgium one of the worse swearwords there is... but why would some director from the US in the '70's know that Vader is Dutch for Father?

queeq Chaos

Originally posted by sweersa
Yes. Queeq do most people in the Netherlands speak Dutch or is English the norm?

This show looks interesting:

http://www.bnn.nl/page/home/nieuws/59513

They are playing one of my favorite GN'R songs.

We all speak Dutch, dude. But most of us understand English as well.

Haven't seen that show yet... but then, there are more like that.

Slash_KMC Retired Helper

Over 20 million people speak the language.

Jovan Forbidden Drag

Originally posted by Slash_KMC
Over 20 million people speak the language.

out of 6.75 million people. I can hardly call that a known language... if he wants an "unknown" European language he was better of with Romansch from Switzerland. And for arguments sake: if he took it from Dutch, why would he name a character Father and than 3 years later think "hey, I named him Father, so let him be a father"?

queeq Chaos

Well, there always was a plan for Vader to be Luke's father. But I am not convinced he took it from Dutch myself. I think it's short for Invader or something. It just sounds cool.

sweersa Senior Member

Originally posted by queeq
We all speak Dutch, dude. But most of us understand English as well.

Haven't seen that show yet... but then, there are more like that.

I assumed that but I just wondered if Dutch people ever speak English openly to each other.

queeq Chaos

Why would we?

Jovan Forbidden Drag

actually, we do in Belgium when we feel the other is more comfortable in that language