Comment on Clueless about Biology

• andrewth09@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  FBI not eff-bee-eye.

  NTP not en-tee-pee.

  RNC not arr-en-cee.

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• LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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  • xeekei@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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