Haakskeekah

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Haakskeekah is a fictitious word used by the fictional race of Skeksis in Jim Henson's 1982 fantasy film The Dark Crystal. In early stages of the film, the Skeksis were meant to speak in their own constructed language. The Skeksis dialogue was subtitled in English. This was dropped after screen test audiences found the subtitling too distracting, but the original effect can be observed in selected scenes of the Deleted Scenes section on the recent DVD release. Since the language was dropped in final production of the film, it is unknown exactly what the word would translate to in English. Many theorize that this word would translate to the English phrase of "I challenge," but others think that it was merely the original name given to the contest held by the Skeksis, known in the film as Trial by Stone.