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2023-11-28 | DubaiTech

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

For the first time, a Chemnitz University of Technology researcher (and, yes, a fan) has been able to comprehensively quantify just how popular words and phrases belonging to this sci-fi universe are. Looking specifically at the use of “Jedi”, “Padawan”, “Yoda”, “lightsaber” (and its variations, such as light-saber and lightsabre) and “to the dark side”, Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer looked at their frequency among four comprehensive corpora of present-day English.