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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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 1 week 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 1 week ago

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