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[-] [email protected] 61 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The worst worst part is that's actually how it's spelled in novelizations (or at least how they used to spell it). Artoo-Detoo and See-Threepio.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I've never read a Star Wars book but this makes me unreasonably ~~unset~~ upset.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

You should get reset

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

If you ever decide to try it don't bother with any of them that came out after Disney took over. Almost all of them are trash.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I used to have a copy of the original novelization of ANH I could post a picture of that had it but I have no idea what happened to it.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

...Why?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

FBI not eff-bee-eye.

NTP not en-tee-pee.

RNC not arr-en-cee.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Because the only rational reason to spell it Artoo-Detoo and See-Threepio is if they got paid by the word and they wanted to bolster their paycheck? The alternative that they somehow thought this was a good idea is even worse.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I'm pretty sure it was so they would look more like real names, because Star Wars treated robots (droids) like actual characters which was rare at the time.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Threepio and theee-pee-oh sound different so I understand it in a script. That's it though.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I was seven when I learned this and I've always hated it.

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