• @JusticeForPorygon
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    4 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.

    • @andrewth09
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      4 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        34 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.

      • @JusticeForPorygon
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        24 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.

        • @andrewth09
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          44 months ago

          FBI not eff-bee-eye.

          NTP not en-tee-pee.

          RNC not arr-en-cee.

        • @[email protected]
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          34 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]
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            34 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.

          • JackbyDev
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            24 months ago

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

    • zeekaran
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      24 months ago

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