Re: CHAT: Star Wars and its conlangs

BP Jonsson wrote:

> What's a "Joe Schlepp character", BTW?
TO "shlepp" is to carry or drag, prototypically to drag something heavy
in a sack; it's a borrowing from Yiddish.

I have not heard this term, but I understand it to mean "an ordinary
character, a non-star, non-special character."

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        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)