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Subject: Source or Sword?
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Poll: Sword or Source?  [closed]
Sword:  78%
(46 Votes)
Source:  22%
(13 Votes)
Total Votes: 59

During Cortanas narration she says " I am your sheild, I am your ?"

I personally thought she said sword but on closer listening i've heard source to. Which is it?

  • 05.09.2006 3:41 PM PDT
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yo man if u listen closley she says " i am your sheild, i am your sword", lol i guess it seems so clear after watching it 25 times in a row


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  • 05.09.2006 7:15 PM PDT

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Shield & Sword makes more sence..

"I am your shield" = "I am your defence"
"I am your sword" = "I am your offence"

  • 05.09.2006 7:16 PM PDT
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If anyone says source I'll smack the taste right out of their mouth. Who would say source? Think people.

  • 05.09.2006 7:17 PM PDT
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It sound like she says Sword, but then theres an echo the sounds like the ce. Maybe it's both words? Sword and source?

  • 05.09.2006 7:18 PM PDT
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Just thought this article over on Yahoo might be of some help: http://videogames.yahoo.com/e32006/article?id=21092 - they claim she says "source". I, however, listening to it over and over, distincly hear both at the same time, one from Cortana and one from Gravemind.

  • 05.09.2006 7:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: Spartn119
Just thought this article over on Yahoo might be of some help: http://videogames.yahoo.com/e32006/article?id=21092 - they claim she says "source". I, however, listening to it over and over, distincly hear both at the same time, one from Cortana and one from Gravemind.

Exactly what I meant. I hear Cortana say sword but then I hear ce.

  • 05.09.2006 7:21 PM PDT
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Maybe its a split meaning
source added with sword
Source-I am your source for power I have been your help along the way and pushed you farther than any one ever has

Sword- I have helped you defeat your enemies with a sharp edged defeat now you must use me to achieve you full potential and save earth for good


So I VOTE: both

  • 05.09.2006 7:21 PM PDT

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I hear Sword slightly overlapped with sword again. Like she glitched while saying sword.

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  • 05.09.2006 7:22 PM PDT
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I think its sword, the -ce sound i'm guessing its static (notice how cortana sounds choppy and staticky, must be like a transmission-type of thing)

  • 05.09.2006 7:23 PM PDT
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think about it this way...

shield and sword are the only things that make sense, you simultainiously use a shield and a sword, you dont use a shield and a sourse, whatever that amounts to.

shield and sword is refering to how cortana greatly helps the MC in battle, cortana is his shield and sword, whats a warrior without a shileld and a sword, dead mostly likely, unless your like jackie chan or something.

  • 05.09.2006 7:23 PM PDT
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I really can't tell. I didn't think for a second that she said source until I listened again after reading this. Now I can't decide. There is definately an "s" sound at the end of the word but it could have been static or interference. I can't really hear the "d" sound at the end of the word in question either. I'm stumped.

  • 05.09.2006 7:26 PM PDT
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I have heard both, sword and source appear to have been said at the same time. Or she says sword and the static makes it sound like source by waning out the sound.

  • 05.09.2006 7:27 PM PDT
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Although after listening to it about 20 times, I finally came to the conclusion of sword...it does seem to overlap with source and sort of says both of them. Even one of the blogs I was reading earlier today (not sure which one...read so many) believed that the trailer had said source. I suppose that in the end it doesn't really matter as poetry isn't generally meant to make sense and I can see arguments for both sword and source.

  • 05.09.2006 7:28 PM PDT
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It sounded like source to me, even though sword makes more sence.

  • 05.09.2006 7:30 PM PDT
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You can easily hear she says BOTH. She says Source first and you can hear the ord part of Sword right after Source.

  • 05.09.2006 7:31 PM PDT
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It's Source. Cortana is not refering to herself, but to the Ark. It shielded the Forerunners from the Halos, and is the source of humanity.

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  • 05.09.2006 7:32 PM PDT
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Yeah, sure, it's definetely "I am your VALVe game engine used for Counter-Strike Source".

  • 05.09.2006 7:32 PM PDT

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I hear Sword slightly overlapped with sword again. Like she glitched while saying sword.
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Dead-on. It's the word "sword" repeated just out of sync that makes the extra "ess" sound some people hear as source. I'll admit I got caught on that as well. But if you consider the stutter on the "I" in the first sentance it makes sense you'd hear a slight overlap of sword.

I'm still trying to figure out if I hear "defied" or "define" ( or something else which doesn't make sense). It's hard to tell exactly with the overlap of the Gravemind voice and ambience but defied definitely makes more sense contextually.

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  • 05.09.2006 7:33 PM PDT
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Though sword does make more sense, I believe she does say source, just from what I hear, and knowing she is an extremely intelligent A.I.

  • 05.09.2006 7:35 PM PDT

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Definitely Sword, it doesn't sound anything like "Source" in 5.1 Just sounds like Sword and Sword overlapped, really faintly.

  • 05.09.2006 7:36 PM PDT

It says sword, it's just that electronic sizzle sound that makes the "ce" sound.

  • 05.09.2006 7:39 PM PDT
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okay, she says shield, it is only common sense she would say sword as well.

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it's really simple, whoever first suggested that cortana said "source" may just be retarded.

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[Edited on 5/9/2006]

  • 05.09.2006 7:43 PM PDT