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Subject: one more thing about fore=humans
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i just had this duh moment a minute ago thinking about chaplains posts.

If we werent the forerunners before, then how the fishsticks does 343 know freaking english?

  • 07.12.2004 6:30 PM PDT
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Copy+paste from another post of mine.

I'm not sure about this but people in Halo universe don't speak English, they speak "Basic." I think its somewhere in the book. GS is an advanced AI and would have no problem learning a language fairly quickly :/ English is not the language of the Forrunners.

No one speaks English in the Halo universe :/

  • 07.12.2004 6:43 PM PDT
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ditto, that's probably how they covies computer learned enough basic to deliver their ultimatum

  • 07.12.2004 6:50 PM PDT
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Posted by: Morguile
Copy+paste from another post of mine.

I'm not sure about this but people in Halo universe don't speak English, they speak "Basic." I think its somewhere in the book. GS is an advanced AI and would have no problem learning a language fairly quickly :/ English is not the language of the Forrunners.

No one speaks English in the Halo universe :/
lol i think you might be mixing star wars in their a little KOTOR (kinghts of the old rebublic) but an AI nomader how advanced whould have to learn it first and MC was the first human it ran into wait actualy remember that other marine that was the reclaimer? maybe thats how GS new but AI cant just pluck a new launguage out of the air.

  • 07.12.2004 6:55 PM PDT
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Yes i know their language might nto be called "Basic" lol, but still they defenetly would nto speak English, or at least English as we know it today... and would still need a common language so why not "Basic"? :)

Edit: man I can't spell the word "not"

[Edited on 7/12/2004 7:02:18 PM]

  • 07.12.2004 7:01 PM PDT
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I thought that all humans speak english now? Anyways, You think that the covenent have different languages? Like We have English, Italian, Spanish, Chineese.... the covenent have a different language for each race, and the races each have different languages too maybe?

  • 07.12.2004 7:09 PM PDT
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The different races seemingly understand each other but speak different languages. So far the humans in Halo universe only translated parts of them (mostly the grunt language :) hence we undestand what grunts say, but we have no clue as to what "WORT WORT WORT!" is.

  • 07.12.2004 7:11 PM PDT
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Posted by: Coldarmy
I thought that all humans speak english now? Anyways, You think that the covenent have different languages? Like We have English, Italian, Spanish, Chineese.... the covenent have a different language for each race, and the races each have different languages too maybe?
yes and there our about a thousand meanings for every covie word.hmmmm lots of fun for cortana.

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Posted by: Coldarmy
I thought that all humans speak english now? Anyways, You think that the covenent have different languages? Like We have English, Italian, Spanish, Chineese.... the covenent have a different language for each race, and the races each have different languages too maybe?


That would seem reasonable seeing as each Covenant race originates from their own homeplanet. Essentially the Covenant are a coalition of races against the humans, all with different cultures, physical features, intelligence and I am sure language as well.

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Posted by: Morguile
The different races seemingly understand each other but speak different languages. So far the humans in Halo universe only translated parts of them (mostly the grunt language :) hence we undestand what grunts say, but we have no clue as to what "WORT WORT WORT!" is.


Actually lol, this is a little off topic, but when bungie made the elite phrases, they took phrases and played them backwards and changed the pitch and speed, WORT WORT WORT is actually GO GO GO backwards

  • 07.12.2004 10:30 PM PDT
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look, I don't know but drop the topic already

  • 07.12.2004 10:32 PM PDT
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Lol.. really? Never knew that, hehe. But on a realistic side (of a fiction game O-o ?!?!) we still have no clue what elites are really saying :P

  • 07.12.2004 10:33 PM PDT
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guys GS knew their language cause cortana, she was plugged into the system, remember. he could have easily downloaded it from her..

[Edited on 7/12/2004 10:35:17 PM]

  • 07.12.2004 10:34 PM PDT
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good call deathscythe, downloading speech patterns from her, i would've never that of that

  • 07.13.2004 11:36 AM PDT
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Posted by: Raiden2006
Posted by: Morguile
The different races seemingly understand each other but speak different languages. So far the humans in Halo universe only translated parts of them (mostly the grunt language :) hence we undestand what grunts say, but we have no clue as to what "WORT WORT WORT!" is.


Actually lol, this is a little off topic, but when bungie made the elite phrases, they took phrases and played them backwards and changed the pitch and speed, WORT WORT WORT is actually GO GO GO backwards



HEY, go to this site which shows u the elite words , and then them translated into english by reversing them, then making it more human like by reversing the altering the pitch ( just click on the arrow on each bar to hear it!)

[Edited on 7/13/2004 11:52:28 AM]

  • 07.13.2004 11:46 AM PDT