An important Star Wars question:

[air_show]

Note: I want you to go full death of the author on this. Absolutely do not take into account the intentions of George Lucas or any other creative force that has ever worked on any Star Wars media in a way that establishes general canon.

I want you to go with your gut. What do you believe in your heart? What do you do, if you were the one with your hand on the steering wheel? Tap into your personal sense of creativity and choose:

 

[Torzelbaum]

Robot Droid names use numbers, dashes and letters. They should not be spelled out phonetically using only letters - that path only leads to the dark side.

 

[air_show]

Weakest phonetic spelling enjoyer then:

 

[Rascally Badger]

Full names: C-3PO and R2-D2, shortened: Threepio and Artoo

 

[SabreCat]

Badger's got it.

 

[RT-55J]

Yeah. Generally speaking, phonetic spellings for robot names are best used when you're omitting letters/numbers (thus saith an artee)

 

[Bongo]

This is highly context-dependent.

 

[Olli]

"Ärkaks deekaks" and "see kolme pee oo"

 

[Felicia]

"Ärkaks deekaks" and "see kolme pee oo"

"Ärr Två De Två" and "See Tre Pe Oo".

 

[Kirin]

By those rules we also have Arnee Deenee and Seesan Peezayro, which is delightful.

 

[Pombar]

Every now and again we need a question like this to bring us all (except air_show) together

By those rules we also have Arnee Deenee and Seesan Peezayro, which is delightful.

Or Er'er Di'er and Xisan Pi'ou!

 

[Olli]

Or Er'er Di'er and Xisan Pi'ou!

Damn, those are great names just looking for use.

 

[air_show]

Well. I seem to be in the minority here.

 

[Baudshaw]

YOU were the one voter???