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ladyvader1005 replied to your post: So I was just perusing the Wikipedia page...

Don’t get your hopes up, the reference article used for that is using Mike Zeroh as their source. Use Wookieepedia for Star Wars wiki stuff, they have a much higher standard for their Star Wars info as they are focused solely on that.

GAH I shoulda checked the source.... sorry guys nevermind! ;-P

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official-data replied to your post “ok so i have a question humans (for the most part) speak basic,...”

I usually just assume it's a translation convention. I.e., the "real" name in Basic isn't "X-wing", but it uses the name of something that's X-shaped. Like, maybe it's more literally something like "cross-wing", but it's "translated" to X-wing. Likewise, C-3PO is probably "really" Cresh-[Basic for three]-peth-osk, but it's translated to C-3PO (the same way that a Spanish speaker, say, would read a catalog number differently than an English speaker, "cee" vs "ce", etc)

also @ladyvader1005 (but i can’t figure out how to reply to multiple, uh, replies):

They do use our alphabet along with aurebesh, they call it High Galactic alphabet. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/High_Galactic_alphabet “Well, actually, they do use the Roman alphabet in the Star Wars universe."― Pablo Hidalgo.

i did not realise high galactic was a thing! i feel like i saw a tweet the other day from pablo talking about numerals in the sw style guide- roman for planets, arabic for moons, too. wondered how it all fitted together. like that, apparently.

thank you for easing my mind on this tiny thing that bothered me a remarkable amount, i genuinely appreciate it! <3

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