I've always wondered this...

If  you don't read XKCD, you totally should. Here's a recent comic from it:


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Semi-related to the comic, I've always been confused as to why the Star Wars universe used words like Y-wing and X-wing when their language is written in aurebesh [which I may or may not have memorized...]. Aurebesh isn't based on the Roman alphabet, so how did they know that their ships were shaped like Y's and X's and should be named accordingly? Oh, the things I think about.