Am I the only one who thinks it's played out giving everything Greek and Latin names? Or at least that it makes no sense in a setting like Star Wars? Yeah, I get that English already has a lot of Greek and Latin in it and most of the characters have to speak English because not everything should have con-langs. But when the older Star Wars movies were using vaguely Asian sounding names, or words that were probably just made up because they sound alien, that actually helped the "Galaxy far, far away" seem both ancient and alien to English speakers. Latin might be ancient but it's hardly foreign to anyone who speaks a western language and while I think the Romans might have been remnants of some subhuman proto-race, they were at least from earth and so not exactly alien.
Am I the only one who thinks it's played out giving everything Greek and Latin names? Or at least that it makes no sense in a setting like Star Wars? Yeah, I get that English already has a lot of Greek and Latin in it and most of the characters have to speak English because not everything should have con-langs. But when the older Star Wars movies were using vaguely Asian sounding names, or words that were probably just made up because they sound alien, that actually helped the "Galaxy far, far away" seem both ancient and alien to English speakers. Latin might be ancient but it's hardly foreign to anyone who speaks a western language and while I think the Romans might have been remnants of some subhuman proto-race, they were at least from earth and so not exactly alien.