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Subject: Possible explaintion for English- speaking Elites in H2

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Erm... There's that cut scene where cortana translates something that is said by the prophet of Regret, in the level before you kill him.
And it could also be because if they didn't speak English I wouldn't know what they are saying and I'd be pissed off.

  • 07.18.2007 8:42 AM PDT
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In the books, the AI (mainly Cortona) made a translation off the words they heard over the radio "chatter."

  • 07.18.2007 8:43 AM PDT

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But in H1 the elites and the grunts speaked english!
Now what?

  • 07.18.2007 8:50 AM PDT
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Posted by: PETERSON4
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In the books, the AI (mainly Cortona) made a translation off the words they heard over the radio "chatter."


So, techinacly and translator, poossible cortana didnt know the Covie laungauge in H1.

No, she knew. She had heard the language long before Halo 1 and the Fall of Reach.

  • 07.18.2007 8:52 AM PDT
Subject: Possible explaintion for English- speaking Elites in H2

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  • 07.18.2007 8:39 AM PDT

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She has study translation tecniques (can't spell) at Harvard.

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  • 07.18.2007 9:05 AM PDT
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maybe they all just speak english.

  • 07.18.2007 2:30 PM PDT
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In it's current position, it serves almost no good, and, therefore, there is no reason to put anything important into it.

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Here's an explanation: Its a fudging videogame! Commence with the "ZOMG'S!".
ZOMG!

  • 07.18.2007 3:47 PM PDT
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then in halo 3 elites speak german?

  • 07.18.2007 3:53 PM PDT
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It doesn't make sense, because the arbiter can clearly understand johnson, who speaks a "foreign" language... or does he?

  • 07.18.2007 4:04 PM PDT
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I thought that the MC had a translator installed with the latest iteration of the Mjolnir armor?

  • 07.18.2007 4:13 PM PDT

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If you read they book during the part where the Covenant was discovered, they sent a message, "Your destruction is the will of the gods....and we are their instrumemnts." Master Chief is like, "WTF, no translation?", and someone told him "They've probably study our language". So every race of the Covenant know English. Maybe that is their primary language since each Covenant races have their own language. If they want to talk to other Covenants, they have to talk English.

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  • 07.18.2007 4:22 PM PDT