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Havock
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  Earth Words and their Star Wars Counterpart
February 27, 2011 1:23:45 PM    View the profile of Havock 
Found this and thought it might be useful.

This thread is intended to help writers find a Star Wars equivalent to every day earth terms. Don't you hate sitting there for an hour trying to remember if there is a Star Wars word for a bee?

It will list only words used in “official” Star Wars books, comics, etc. Please don’t add words that you have created for use in your own stories. This is only for Star Wars, not other science fiction works. If you come across a term that is an equivalent for an earth term, just post it here and we’ll add it to the official list the next time I update.


A-F

air conditioner = cooling unit
ant - garnant or myrmin
Bandaid - Bactapatch
bathroom – refresher, or ‘fresher
batteries = power cells
Bed- Sleep Couch
bees- honeydarters
binoculars – electrobinoculars, can also be macrobinoculars, also electrobinoculars
birthday – Naming Day
black-and-white (as in old movie or TV show) = monochromatic
blender - sonicblender
cafe/bar - tapcaf
caffeine pill - stimpill
camera - holocam
Cappachino - StimCaf
Car-landspeeder/airspeeder/speeder
Chat Rooms = HoloChat Rooms
clock- chrono
coffee - caf
concrete- duracrete of ferrocrete
Credit card- credcard
Diamonds - chrysopaz
dice- chance cubes
Disk - Datacard
Doctor- Medic or Healer
drugs—spice
drug dealers = slythmongers
duct tape = space tape
electric plug = power recharge socket/recharge power coupling
English-Basic
First Aid Kit- Medpack
Flashlight- Glow rod
forklift-binary loadlifter

G-L

glass - transparisteel
godparents - Hold-parents
gum - Chew stick
hacker - Slicer (Computers)
handcuffs- binders
Hospital- Medcenter
ID card - Identicard
jack (for lifting) - hydrojack
Jazz music - Jizz music
Jazz band - Jizz wailers
Jolt! Cola - Stimfizz Can keep a person up for nearly 2 standard days
Kevlar = armorweave
lamp/lightbulb (flat?) = lumapanel

M-R

money -credits
motorcycle - swoop/speederbike
movie - holodocumetary/holodrama
novel - Holonovel
On/off button = activator panel/button
Pajamas - Sleep-suit... or Sleep-pants for the guys
palm pilot = datapad
paper - flimsiplast
PDA = datapad
pen-stylus
photograph = holograph or holo
pistol- slug thrower (see also, rifle)
plastic - plasteel
Plug- Power Socket
Poker- Sabaac
rabbit- hoojib
radio/TV/cell phone antenna = signal receptor/reception antenna
rain poncho = rain cloak
rifle- slug thrower (see also, pistol)
rifle scope/crosshairs = rangefinder

S-Z

Scissors- cutters
Spanner – Hydrospanner
Standard day= 24 hours
Standard week= 5 days.
Standard month= 35 standard days
Standard year(Coruscant) about ten standard months.
steel - durasteel
tiger -vine tiger
vacuum cleaner/Dustbuster = sandstat (Tattooine)
video/movie - holovid
vinyl = synthleather
walkie talkie/communications devices - commlink
Watch - Wristchrono
wheelchair = mechno-chair (maybe the un-fancy Tatooine version of Yoda's hover-chair)
Windows (on spacecraft) - Viewport
windshield = windscreen
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  RE: Earth Words and their Star Wars Counterpart
February 27, 2011 1:29:23 PM    View the profile of Jegora 
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  RE: Earth Words and their Star Wars Counterpart
February 27, 2011 2:32:35 PM    View the profile of Decembrist 
"Jizz wailers"

Probably could've put more thought into that one, Lucas.
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  RE: Earth Words and their Star Wars Counterpart
February 27, 2011 4:23:15 PM    View the profile of Jegora 
Maybe he did. Maybe he put a LOT of thought into that one.

Eh? EH?
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  RE: Earth Words and their Star Wars Counterpart
February 28, 2011 1:27:56 AM    View the profile of Kazack 
HAHHA!!!

Good work Hav! we need something like this
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