What
would happen if some phone manufacturer produced an R2 phone that when you
asked, “R2, where’s the nearest coffee shop?” it replied with a series of beeps
and whistles in a language that you would need to learn in order to know you go
two blocks and take a right? I’d bet it
wouldn’t sell. A few nerds might buy one,
but most people – if they really wanted to – would probably just download an
app to the phone they already have. It
would be cheaper and you could delete it once the novelty wears off. (I can picture someone yelling at their
phone, “Is whistle left, or right?)
Given
that C-3PO is “fluent in over six million forms of communication,” the language
memory bank can’t be that big yet still fit inside his head. So why doesn’t R2-D2 have a similar memory
bank? Or at least one that lets him have
a second form of communication like basic
English which most – if not all – beings in Star
Wars understand.
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