Timeline for Are most Star Wars characters illiterate?
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| Mar 13, 2023 at 15:28 | comment | added | Stef | Besides, it's quite possible that each planet has its own written script, and "the galaxy" has a standard written script; and in practice the galactic standard script is mostly only used with computers, so the only people who actually handwrite do it in their native language, not in galactic standard script. | |
| Mar 13, 2023 at 15:25 | comment | added | Stef | I don't know how hard it is to handwrite in star wars' language, but I've been learning Chinese for 5 years now and I can attest that writing text messages with my phone's keyboard is immensely easier than handwriting. | |
| Jan 11, 2018 at 12:32 | comment | added | xDaizu | @user1027 That doesn't prove they can read. They could be just using the Force.... ... what? Is that not how the Force works? | |
| Jan 4, 2017 at 19:40 | answer | added | WVR Spence WestVirginiaRebel | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 2, 2016 at 23:24 | answer | added | WGroleau | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 20:22 | history | edited | Jack B Nimble | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
new evidence of semi-illiteracy for people who can't write with pen and ink? Who knows.
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| Oct 27, 2014 at 16:14 | comment | added | Thaddeus Howze | The Star Wars Universe is an example of a post-literate society. It is likely most of the inhabitants of their universe can read in their native tongues. On any world of technological sophistication equaling the Industrial Age or better, encoding information is absolutely necessary for the functioning of the society. Post-literacy is when a society CAN read but beyond the need to interact with the environment, people DON'T choose to because there are so many other means of getting information. A good deal of 21 century Earth is already post literate. People could read but don't. | |
| Oct 27, 2014 at 15:40 | answer | added | Jason Hutchinson | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 27, 2014 at 3:47 | answer | added | Nagurski | timeline score: 17 | |
| Nov 26, 2012 at 16:21 | vote | accept | Jack B Nimble | ||
| Oct 5, 2012 at 17:10 | comment | added | Chad | @DVK yeah but they retconned out all the pron. | |
| Oct 5, 2012 at 14:40 | answer | added | Chad | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 5, 2012 at 1:44 | answer | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | timeline score: 26 | |
| Oct 5, 2012 at 1:27 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | Star Wars Episode 7: The Exciting 2 hours of watching people read! | |
| Oct 5, 2012 at 0:02 | comment | added | The Fallen | There are examples of reading ancient scrolls and pieces of "flimsiplast", but I don't have a source off the top of my head. Also, these are isolated incidents And not evidence of widespread literacy. | |
| Oct 5, 2012 at 0:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/254008452173672448 | ||
| Oct 4, 2012 at 22:19 | comment | added | Jack B Nimble | @Keen The article points out that pilots may have a rudamentary literacy in order to know which buttons "make ship go fly." R2D2's communication could have been "Dagobah = bad." | |
| Oct 4, 2012 at 22:11 | comment | added | user1027 | Two instances of reading I can recall are 1) Obi-wan reading the label on the Death Star Tractor Beam's power control, and 2) Luke reading R2's translated communication in his X-Wing. Neither of which shows prevalent literacy though. | |
| Oct 4, 2012 at 22:08 | history | asked | Jack B Nimble | CC BY-SA 3.0 |