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Published 7 months ago

Lightsaber lexicon: The monumental impact Star Wars has had on language

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A Chemnitz University of Technology researcher has been able to comprehensively quantify just how popular words and phrases belonging to the Star Wars universe are. Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer looked at their frequency among four comprehensive corpora of present-day English. She found that 34% of references were not at all related to the George Lucas sci-fi empire.

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Lightsaber lexicon: The monumental impact Star Wars has had on language

From ‘bae’ to ‘selfie’, and even ‘google’, there’s no shortage of words that have transcended their specific origin stories to achieve widespread use in the English language. And one of the most pervasive sources has been the Star Wars universe, even though these words hail from “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.”Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags: Chemnitz University of Technology, star wars, Language, Communications, History, Cultu…

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