Whereas "Solo" is just dumb. I mean, it would have worked as a throwaway line, like if Han was telling one of his buddies about it as a joke. But as a huge, ponderous moment like they tried to make it to be in the movie, it's absurd.
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Replying to @NussbaumAbigail @arthur_affect
It also is sort of an awkward attempt to dodge the fact that "Han Solo" was obviously made up to sound like an Asian name of some sort without talking to any Asian people and without any intention of casting an Asian actor
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @NussbaumAbigail
I mean I guess "Solo" is a real surname, like Hope Solo and Ksenia Solo (it's Italian for "alone", which is where we get its English meaning, but it's also corruption of the Hebrew/Yiddish name Shlomo) And "Han" is Dutch for "Hans" (which is German for "John")
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(I am a native Dutch speaker and have never heard of anyone called "Han". "Hans" is a common Dutch name. Translating "John" to "Hans" is not exactly correct either, "Jan" would be the german/dutch for "John".)
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I'm just passing along what the Internet tells mehttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_(given_name) …
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Han Nolan. That's an interesting woman's name
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I think she's just a Hannah with an idiosyncratic nickname that may be an intentionally androgynous pen name to avoid the "women's fiction ghetto" (same reason Andrea Norton became Andre Norton when she became an SFF writer)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
The random thing where Lando insistently says "Han" like "Hannah" and not "Hans" is, of course, also tiresomely made into a big thing in Solo
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
(Mark Hamill said one of the great things about George Lucas being such a "relaxed" director is he never made an official pronunciation guide for the script and just airily said any discrepancies in how actors said things could be chalked up to regional dialects)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Honestly I've never quite understood where the line between "mispronouncing someone's name" vs "having an accent other than the person's parents'" is drawn in real life.
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It's mostly up to how much of a stickler the person wants to be
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