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the star wars universe has no official name but in fandom you’ll see it shortened to GFFA for “galaxy far, far away”

glass - transparisteel

metal used in construction - durasteel

very strong space-plastic (used in stormtrooper armor) - duraplast

tablet computer (analogous to a PADD in trek) - datapad

rather than paper, handwriting is usually done with a stylus on flimsiplast (flimsi/flimsy for short)

holos are 3-d videos or videomessages, recorded and played on a holoprojector (these are often seen in small formats, palm-sized - analogous to like. a GoPro.)

we don’t drive cars, we drive landspeeders or speeder bikes

we don’t shoot guns, we shoot blasters

if you didn’t bring a knife to a gun fight, you perhaps brought a vibroblade instead - an edged weapon that, you guessed it, vibrates. little ones could be called vibroshivs or vibroknives. we actually got to see polearm versions of these in The Mandalorian! it was very exciting.

robots in GFFA are, of course, droids. astromech droids (astromechs) are the like. iphones of the droid world - ubiquitous, multipurpose, most with a similar aesthetic. R2-D2 and BB-8 are both astromech droids. human-shaped droids like C-3P0 are protocol droids.

got a papercut? a nasty flesh wound? a missing chunk of your torso, perhaps? slap a bacta-patch on it or take a dip in a bacta tank for a soothing treatment with this all-purpose miracle healing goo. this is what diapered Luke is bobbing around in during the early part of Empire Strikes Back.

you’re supposed to say kriff/kriffing instead of “damn,” “shit,” or “fuck/fucking,” but this is for cowards. let Obi-Wan cuss.

midichlorians - ignore them.

before the Empire comes to power, baby jedi who can’t hack it as knights or are never chosen to be Padawan apprentices become members of the Service Corps, the branches of which are the Agricultural Corps (AgriCorps), Medical Corps (MedCorps), Educational Corps (EduCorps), Exploration Corps (ExplorCorps)

dates are expressed (typically) as [date] Before the Battle of Yavin (BBY) or [date] After the Battle of Yavin (ABY). for instance, the sequel trilogy begins in 34 ABY.

• Basic = English

• Days of the week goes like: · Primeday · Centaxday · Taungsday · Zhellday · Benduday.

• watches and clocks = chronometer or chrono

• Time measurement (all based off of the Coruscant solar cycle)

- 60 standard minutes = 1 standard hour

- 24 standard hours = 1 standard day

- 5 standard days = 1 standard week

- 7 standard weeks = 1 standard month

- 10 standard months + 3 festival weeks + 3 holidays = 368 standard days = 1 standard year

• Showers! = (most common) fresher, the fresher, refresher, (uncommon, used in desert planets) sonic shower, or just ‘sonic’

• pianos exist!

• what’s the most vile language you can cuss in?? why, in Huttese of course (which is the second most prevalent language in the galaxy after Basic. It’s the lingua franca for the Outer Rim Territories which is basically space wild west), try saying Fierfek five times (it means curse you)

• if you’re a droid or mechanic another cuss word would be “switch-off”

• if ur Mandalorian, ass/asses would be shebs, ‘dank farrik’ which is common for mercs to say = damn, fuck

• people working for the empire = colloquially called ‘imps’

• the mafia = pykes and the hutts

Friends + Little Women

bonus:

We barely know anything about Madagascar pre-500CE. We don’t even know whether the island had a permanent population before then, despite finding a bunch of much older signs of temporary human presence.

Malagasy mythology makes mention of the vazimba, a “precursor” ethnic group that might or might not be distinct from Madagascar’s current population.

The point is, we do not know.

So you were in Madagascar when the pyramids were being built in Egypt, i.e. during one of the most obscure, most undocumented parts of Madagascar’s human history?

- I'm beginning to think my soul mate may actually be carbs. - Then mine must be wine.