Welcome, friends, to what is becoming a recurring occasion where I just talk about silly Star Wars linguistics, apparently. Over the weekend, Lucasfilm story group member Matt Martin blew my mind with a shocking revelation: The Empire Strikes Back’s Tauntauns aren’t Tauntauns.
Source: io9 – You’re Not Meant to Capitalize Star Wars’ ‘tauntaun’—and There’s a Suitably Weird Reason Why