Couple more posts that never got crossposted

[annathepiper]

Oh good, I can crosspost again. But a couple of my recent posts got missed, so for the interested, here they are:

Book review: The Goblin Emperor, by Katherine Addison (because I'm in the middle of trying to read all the Hugo Best Novel nominees)

Language and Star Wars geekery in the same post! (because I just watched Star Wars in French, which was huge fun)

Comments

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

Re: Chiquetabbac - I wonder if they were going with "Chewing tobacco" as the etymology for "Chewbacca"? Tabac being French for tobacco.

Granted, I don't know where the Chique bit would come from in that.

[annathepiper]

Yeah, I was wondering about that same etymology! And a quick check of my online French-English dictionary of choice does indeed report that "chiquer" means "to chew", and it can in fact be used in the sense of chewing tobacco.

So I'd say that's a pretty strong argument in favor.