The creator of Star Wars has always been open about his indebtedness to popular sci fi. Indeed, he relates how, stuck on page 1 and in the throes of writer's block, he just bought a pile of popular sci fi novels to see what works and why. It is no secret that Dune was hugely influential. However, a penchant for diving specifically into the Dutch language for strange-and-yet-familiar words is not often mentioned. Vader means father in Dutch. Piett is similar to Piet, the Dutch spelling of Pete. In Dutch, mof is a pejorative term for a German. The Y-wing squadron leader in A New Hope has call sign "Dutch" and his surname is Vander; lots of Dutch surnames are prefixed with "van der" (or "van den", "van de", "van") although the actual surname is the bit that follows it. 2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:15DA:47A6:3B52:9C47 (talk) 08:28, 5 February 2020 (UTC)Reply
The part about the word landsraad reads more like an interesting result to a discussion someone had, and less like an encyclopedic entry.
Why are the Dutch and Afrikaans languages discussed here?
I get that some speakers might suspect a connection to their mother tongue, but the author stated the Scandinavian origin. Words like rådhus, rådsherre and rådman(d) are all of Middle Low Saxon origin (râthûs, râthêre, râtman), which was an influential (or even THE) language of trade in the North Sea as well as the Baltic sea when the Hanseatic league was powerful. One can suspect that the legal term landsraad or landsråd is of Low Saxon origin (landesrāt) as well, which makes the similarity to Afrikans and Dutch appear even more natural as they are very closely related.
Should I add another interesting sentence about my mother tongue, Low Saxon, as well, since it is more closely related to the term in the books? Or should I trim this section a bit and remove the peripheral info about those other two West Germanic languages?
Sources for the claims, among others:
http://germanic-studies.org/Middle-Low-German-loanwords-in-the-Scandinavian-languages.htm
https://www.koeblergerhard.de/mnd/2A/mnd_l.html Liekveel (talk) 17:18, 30 October 2021 (UTC)Reply
Too many footnotes just say "Herbert, Dune, 1965" and don't give a page number. That's not good enough; it's basically pointless. It's not much better than just saying "citation needed." Richard75 (talk) 22:37, 27 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
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