Language and Humor Blog » dutch http://languageandhumor.com/blog Language, linguistics, English, foreign languages, sign languages, humor/humour, comedy Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:29:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Force is strong in these GPS voices http://languageandhumor.com/blog/2010/07/the-force-is-strong-in-these-gps-voices/ http://languageandhumor.com/blog/2010/07/the-force-is-strong-in-these-gps-voices/#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:09:42 +0000 Kevin http://languageandhumor.com/blog/?p=368 Continue reading →]]> [Obligatory Yoda inverted word order here insert you may.]

The folks at TomTom are selling Star Wars voices for their GPS devices and seemed to have enjoyed the making of behind-the-scenes videos of the recording sessions. The Yoda one has a bunch of funny things in it. The Darth Vader one starts out slow but gets better towards the middle (via The Nerdist and many other vias back to Carscoop).

“Yoda recording for TomTom GPS – behind the scenes”

Link to Yoda video

“Darth Vader recording for TomTom GPS – behind the scenes”

Link to Darth Vader video

As a Dutch company, TomTom is a good choice for at least the Darth Vader voicings, as vader is (I think not coincidentally) the Dutch word for “father.” Any Dutch people out there who predate the prequel trilogy and didn’t get to be surprised by the “I am your father” reveal in The Empire Strikes Back? Now you know the power of the Dark Side. As far as I know, darth is not the Dutch word for “asthmatic” (which is apparently astmatisch, among others).

“Star Wars” is still “Star Wars” in the Netherlands but would translate to the cognate Sterrenoorlogen (ster “star” in the combining form sterren and the plural oorlogen of oorlog “war”).

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