Star Wars back in theaters (in Ojibwe)

[theophrastus]

@jhbadger

the hyper which is super, super crazy. And then there’s the drive part. So we, we basically just broke it down the same way,” said Aandeg Muldrew, a translator on the project and the voice of Luke Skywalker.

I get where they are getting that, “hyper” is the colloquial sense “my kid is acting hyper”, but that’s not what the prefix means in “hyperdrive” – the idea is ships using hyperdrive are entering another dimension akin to the real concept of hyperdimensional physics, where “hyper” means “over or beyond”.

Keeping in mind that “super” also means “above, over, or beyond”, quite like your interpretation of “hyper”. Perhaps no accounting for “crazy” other than it being inconceivably ‘hyper-super’ as in ‘going plaid’…