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Comic #4848

1 C-3PO: I am fluent in over six million forms of communication.
1 Uncle Owen: Can you speak Bocce?
2 C-3PO: It’s like a second language to me.
3 Uncle Owen: Okay, I’ll take these two!
4 C-3PO: Don’t let on Artoo, but I only know Basic and I’m just machine translating all the rest.
4 R2-D2: <whistle beep??>
4 C-3PO: Eels? Really?

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There is of course a philosophical question here. Does C-3PO really "know" any languages at all, or is he always just doing the equivalent of machine translation?

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