Timeline for Is there a canon reference calling droid language "Binary"?

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Jan 14, 2016 at 2:30	vote	accept	MichaelS
Jan 12, 2016 at 0:56	comment	added	Valorum		You might want to ask if there are any mentions of droids speaking binary (other than those mentioned in ANH) *prior to 2014*
Jan 11, 2016 at 20:38	comment	added	MichaelS		zipquincy: In-universe, that's a fair point. Out-of-universe, that devolution of the term is happening. But my question is really about whether the term is canonical, or fan-made. @Todd Wilcox: That is a reference to a pair of "binary" languages, but there's no indication they're not actually binary, or that they're remotely similar to R2-D2's language, or that "binary" is a name rather than an adjective. I'm guessing some less-than-tech-savvy fans made the leap from two specific binary languages to "all droids speak Binary", but I could be wrong.
Jan 11, 2016 at 20:37	answer	added	Valorum		timeline score: 9
Jan 11, 2016 at 20:32	comment	added	Todd Wilcox		So you're not talking about the "binary language of moisture vaporators" (Owen Lars) that is similar to the language used by "binary load lifters" (C-3PO) as mentioned in Star Wars (Episode IV a New Hope for you younger folks - grumpy old people like me stick with the original name)?
Jan 11, 2016 at 20:22	comment	added	zipquincy		Names don't have to make sense, especially since they can become detached from their origins as history moves along and things change. For example, we call a particular people in Europe "German" which comes from the word old English word meaning "genuine", which doesn't seem to have much to do with anything; furthermore these people don't even use this name for themselves, they call themselves Deutsche. So maybe the original robot language was purely binary, and then evolved into something with more sounds so that humans could understand, or for other reasons.
Jan 11, 2016 at 20:08	history	asked	MichaelS	CC BY-SA 3.0