Because this is all fiction, and fictional worlds will continue to evolve, both forwards and backwards, as long as their creators continue to explore them. And then, rather than admit to the mistake, Lucas and the writers of the novels decided to make it work for the correct definition. It worked perfectly well until people started pointing out that a parsec is a unit of distance while Han acts like he's talking about time. He was throwing the term out to his audience the same way that it is now implied that Han was throwing it out to who he thought were two dusty farmers. He latched on to catchy terms and made use of them, and in this case he did so incorrectly. This was the very first of these movies, and Lucas was making his first foray into writing about space. Likely, YOU didn't know this was an error the first time (or even the first several times) that you heard it. Neither did the majority of his audience, so it didn't really matter. Neither did anyone who read the script during production. I think the real question isn't "Did Han know what a parsec was?" but rather, "did George Lucas know what a parsec was?" And I think it's fairly clear that the answer is No, he didn't.
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