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Subject: Why do Spartans have different accents?

Spartans were stolen from their parents around age 5-6, when they are very susceptible to language acquisition. They all trained under the same person and grew up with the same people...

So why do they all have different accents?

  • 01.21.2011 11:35 PM PDT

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Because accents can already stick by ages 5-6.

On a side note. It's also likely far more S-IIIs have accents than S-IIs as well since they were taken at to be trained at a much older age than the S-IIs.

  • 01.21.2011 11:47 PM PDT

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  • 01.22.2011 12:12 AM PDT

Accents grow on to people by age 5.

  • 01.22.2011 1:15 AM PDT

They can already have accants by that age!!!!!

  • 01.22.2011 10:54 AM PDT

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Posted by: j89tracer
Spartans were stolen from their parents around age 5-6, when they are very susceptible to language acquisition. They all trained under the same person and grew up with the same people...

So why do they all have different accents?


Because accents stick, and they sound awesome. Though, it is possible to lose an accent.

  • 01.22.2011 11:13 AM PDT


Posted by: StealthSlasher2
Because accents can already stick by ages 5-6.

On a side note. It's also likely far more S-IIIs have accents than S-IIs as well since they were taken at to be trained at a much older age than the S-IIs.


Actually, this isn't true. The vast majority of S3's were 4 to 6 years old. There are some older ones as well, Carter being 11 and Emile was 8. So while some certainly were older, most were as old or even younger.

  • 01.22.2011 11:42 AM PDT

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Kids already talk and have an accent at 5-6.

  • 01.22.2011 11:48 AM PDT
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Posted by: StealthSlasher2
Because accents can already stick by ages 5-6.

On a side note. It's also likely far more S-IIIs have accents than S-IIs as well since they were taken at to be trained at a much older age than the S-IIs.


They were actually younger. 4-6 year olds.

  • 01.22.2011 12:19 PM PDT

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Posted by: StealthSlasher2
Because accents can already stick by ages 5-6.

On a side note. It's also likely far more S-IIIs have accents than S-IIs as well since they were taken at to be trained at a much older age than the S-IIs.

Spartan-III's weren't trained at a much older age. The oldest of the batch of S-III's was seven. So, that's only a one year different from the S-II's, which were taken at the age of six.

  • 01.22.2011 2:57 PM PDT

accents aren't concrete until mid-puberty, usually later.

source: linguistics 204

  • 01.22.2011 3:07 PM PDT

Kids that young aren't stuck with that accent. They are still taking in language easily and match the language of those around them.

For example, you have a child that grows up in a Spanish-speaking family that knows little English. Around age 5 or 6, she goes to an English-speaking school and learns English easily. By the time she's 8, she speaks perfectly fluent English as well as any other kid, based on the accents of her classmates and teachers.

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  • 01.22.2011 11:19 PM PDT

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Posted by: StealthSlasher2
Because accents can already stick by ages 5-6.

On a side note. It's also likely far more S-IIIs have accents than S-IIs as well since they were taken at to be trained at a much older age than the S-IIs.
The S-IIs were take at age 6, S-IIIs were taken at ages four to six.
Ignore Emile, Jun and Carter because they're all inexplicable anomalies in every possible aspect.

  • 01.23.2011 7:28 AM PDT

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Posted by: StealthSlasher2
Because accents can already stick by ages 5-6.

On a side note. It's also likely far more S-IIIs have accents than S-IIs as well since they were taken at to be trained at a much older age than the S-IIs.
The S-IIs were take at age 6, S-IIIs were taken at ages four to six.
Ignore Emile, Jun and Carter because they're all inexplicable anomalies in every possible aspect.


Took the words right out of my mouth.

  • 01.23.2011 8:02 AM PDT

It's in their DNA.

  • 01.23.2011 8:03 AM PDT

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It's in their DNA.

lol yeah, and so was their augmentations.

  • 01.24.2011 1:05 PM PDT

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Because they come from different colonies.

  • 01.24.2011 2:23 PM PDT

I'm aware they came from different places, born from different cultures.

The point is that they have been training under the same people since age 4-6. Children of this age are very sensitive to language. They would have learned to speak the way their trainers spoke. Accents aren't stuck by that age. They are still building their vocabulary by this point.

I'm aware it's a game and there are accents for personality reasons. But in the "Halo Universe" it would not make sense for them all to have different accents.

[Edited on 01.25.2011 12:05 PM PST]

  • 01.25.2011 12:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: j89tracer
I'm aware they came from different places, born from different cultures.

The point is that they have been training under the same people since age 4-6. Children of this age are very sensitive to language. They would have learned to speak the way their trainers spoke. Accents aren't stuck by that age. They are still building their vocabulary by this point.

I'm aware it's a game and there are accents for personality reasons. But in the "Halo Universe" it would not make sense for them all to have different accents.

It could be possible that the AI that taught them language skills during training, chose to teach them with an accent derived from the AI's hologram apperance. Proof of AI with accents can be seen in Halo Wars with serena.

  • 01.25.2011 12:32 PM PDT

-blam!- Was that actually blammed out? Or did I just type it? You'll never know.

I've always wondered this as well. Not so much the accents part, but why they have recognizable Earth accents like Romanian or middle-Eastern.

  • 01.25.2011 12:53 PM PDT