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    Re: Etymology of "mecha" and possible fixes —Todd Lehman
   (...) I just remembered -- somewhere I read in an interview with George Lucas that the word Gungan was coined by Lucas's son. But his son didn't mean it to apply to a race of amphibious humanoid creatures (as it applies in SW Ep1). His son meant it (...) (26 years ago, 2-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: Etymology of "mecha" and possible fixes —Jeremy H. Sproat
   (...) :-, I especially like that trigger-happy part. Thanks for the info! I've settled for a pidgin-German mix, "Kriegmacht", meaning roughly "presence of conflict". "macht" really means power, force, or presence, but using those first two sounded (...) (26 years ago, 3-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 

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