Tuesday, November 25, 2025

The Empire Strikes Back

The Rebels become concerned when Luke fails to return from placing sensors on Hoth, and in order to re-assure R2-D2, C-3PO says, "Of course, we'll see Master Luke again, and he'll be quite alright; you'll see!"  Then, to himself, he remarks, "Stupid little short circuit.  He'll be quite alright."  The second half of C-3PO's repeated copulative sentence exhibits assonance ("quite alright"), and this provides a sense of thoroughness or completeness, which matches the meaning in a way.

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Yoda's name seems meant to reflect his size.  It sounds similar to the names of the smallest letters in the Hebrew and Greek alphabets:  yodh (י) and iota (ι), respectively.