Forum:SH Archive/English in Star Wars? I don't get it

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I'm fairly confused about this whole thing. Is Basic in the Star Wars galaxy really English? I mean, one might think that they're just translating the dialogue and such for the benefit of the viewers back at home, except for the fact that stuff written in Aurebesh can be translated directly into English. So that might imply that it's just English with a funny font. Fair enough. But then it gets confusing when you look at droids. If it's an Aurebesh alphabet, why do we use R2-D2 and C-3PO? For some reason, they use lettering just like we do, yet these letters never appear anywhere else. Does that mean that there's some sort of Droid Alphabet or something, or that there's actually a much larger alphabet than we thought? Perhaps the droid manufacturers ran out of letters in Aurebesh, and invented a whole new series to multiply the identifiers exponentially? If that's true, is it possible to have droids with Aurebesh to identify them (Like Cresh Three Peth Osh), or even a mix of the two (like Artoo Dorn Two)?