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

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…