AT-AT

pronounced: Ae Te Ae Te or At At

I've always said Ae Te Ae Te, but she's always known it as At At

discuss.

6 minutes ago, Wiredin said:

AT-AT

pronounced: Ae Te Ae Te or At At

I've always said Ae Te Ae Te, but she's always known it as At At

discuss.

That depends if you believe it is an Acronym, or an Initialisation.

Much like SONAR, RADAR and LASER, versus, say, FBI or CIA.

In the Movie, they are only directly referred to as "Imperial Walkers"

Personally, I think its A T A T.

Because the other "AT"-"AT", is kind of an odd deal, having a Hyphenation in the middle of an Acronym, when traditionally, superfluous punctuation and even filler words (and, the, or through ) are generally dropped.

Your wife is correct.

1 hour ago, Wiredin said:

discuss.

You are blessed to have a wife where this is a viable discussion.

I think it depends on how much lovin' you expect to get on a particular night.

But what about the other walkers? AT-ACT, AT-TE, AT-ST ad all the other variations? Is it @act? Atty? and @stuh?

There's no correct/wrong way to do it.

Call the whole thing off .

Sounds like you guys are having fun. That's great!

I've always said At-At .. but I say Ay Tee Ess Tee .. "not At St".

The SW Read-a-long ABC's pronounce it At-At and as a kid I listened to it enough to recite the whole cassette. No doubt where I developed my pronunciation of the walker.

3 hours ago, BlodVargarna said:

Your wife is correct.

because she's the wife?

never!

A. T. A. T.

AT AT just sounds silly.

Funny this should come up, as my sister-in-law argues the same pronunciation as your wife.

It's gotta be A T - A T, not @-@...

I'm frankly shocked at the mixed responses in this thread. In 40 years I have never heard a single person pronounce out the letters unless they had a particular reason to not say @@.

In 34 for years I've never heard anyone ever say @@.

You are both right. At-At was introduced in an early Kenner-commercial before the name was ever pronounced elsewhere and caught on. A. T. A. T. is more in line with the labeling standards for Star Wars walker vehicles and probably became more common during the prequels (though AT-TE also would be said with single letters I believe).

My speculation: Your both are Star Wars fans that grew up somewhere in the 90s/2000s. Both of you got to know Star Wars, obviously, with the prequels going on and all that, but she had someone in her environment that was a first generation dedicated fan who watched the old movies with her and would answer At-At when asked what the large thing on screen is. Meanwhile you discovered the "beyond the screen" Star Wars by yourself because the people in your life who are old enough to know Star Wars first generation weren't enthusiastic enough to care for such things as vehicle designations.

It also is dependant on where you are from, I imagine. In Germany the letters are always said seperately, as pulling them into words would be the most goofy thing ever and not at all apropriate for military designations.

@@ all the way!

A timeless question. You are blessed with a spouse who cares enough about Star Wars to engage the topic.

You're both right.

There was a recent video from Star Wars dot com that tried to settle this issue. Andi Gutierez asked several prominent Lucasfilm employees for their opinions. It was pointed out that both options are spoken at different times in canon film and TV. Examples: In SW Rebels there was a scene that a character (I believe it was Agent Kallus) pronounced the acronym "Ā T Ā T" while in Rogue One the character Pao distinctly says "At At".

There you have it; the chicken came before the egg, and the egg came before the chicken.

Rebels has it with AT-AT as well. No @@ there as far as I know

The commercial I had been talking about:

Awesome toy, I want

About the videos, I can't hear AT-AT in the second video SEApocalypse.

Divorce is the only answer for this.

Wow, @Admiral Deathrain , that's an eerily accurate depiction of how I came into Star Wars and would explain my pronunciation (A.T. A.T.), with the slight exception that my childhood began in the 80s.

Based on the information presented by @SEApocalypse and @jmswood , it seems like one could argue that the "official" pronunciation is A.T. A.T., as it's how the Empire refers to these vehicles, but the Rebel slang is @@, with both options being valid canon nomenclature.

I suppose that means Kenner is part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor!

I've been a star wars fan since the 80s, and the only way I've ever pronounced it is A.T. A.T.

@-@ just sounds silly to me. On the other hand that does make sense as rebel slang for an At-At, as it would take some of the fear factor away from the enemy. Much like calling TIE fighters "eyeballs" and interceptors "squints". Or maybe I'm just over thinking this.

Wasn't there some video where some nerd lady debated it and came out with some official ruling that it was @-@? I wish I could recall the link.

I've always heard it said @-@. Very rarely A.T.-A.T. @-@ just rolls off the tongue better.

Wait....

Wow that video is annoying - and totaly disproven by Rebels (if the point is that A T A T is wrong). I'd settle for officials saying A T A T and @@ being rebel slang. Preserves both and gives the coexistance some substance.

Hey happy wife happy life. Just say she is right and things will be smoother.

How do you pronounce Tantive IV?