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Subject: Cortana says "sword" not "source" -- Proof
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I was looking around at HBO, and this is what a news post said.

Normally, we let speculation run its course on our forum - trying to decipher what Bungie meant with some obscure tidbit is more than half the fun, after all. Sometimes, though, the little stuff really gets in the way; our forum has been swamped today, for example, with debates about one of Cortana's dialogue snippets in the trailer - half the debaters believe she's saying 'I am your sword', and the other half hear 'I am your source'. Well, according to Marty O'Donnell, who really should know... it's 'sword'. Carry on.

So there, no more "sword/source" posts.

Edit: Here's the link to where you can see this. http://nikon.bungie.org/news.html?item=15687

[Edited on 5/10/2006]

  • 05.10.2006 5:13 PM PDT
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Good God, there are so many new topics, no one has time to read them all. Calm down, people.

  • 05.10.2006 5:47 PM PDT
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and Cortana never says "men" in the first line
it is just "I have defied Gods and Demons"

  • 05.10.2006 5:48 PM PDT

B a n a n a s

Amen---keep this thread up so retards can see this...

  • 05.10.2006 6:00 PM PDT

Its a theory you idiot it doesnt have to make sense

Do you belive in love at first sight? Or should i walk by again?

ok shes says sheild too!!! that makes it obvious that she says sword who says source and sheild??? like wtf... sword and sheild..

  • 05.10.2006 6:01 PM PDT
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besides the other thread with Cortana stuff
this one can be about that kind of stuff
just what she really says

not stupid ppl that think they hear words that arent even there

  • 05.10.2006 6:02 PM PDT
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Indeed. It is sword. Hours upon hours of listening to it over and over have proven that.

  • 05.10.2006 6:02 PM PDT
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Finally, some people who have common sense. I have no earthly idea how so many people heard "source", because for one thing, it doesn't even go with what she's saying. What makes more sense, "shield and sword" or "shield and source"? I honestly think some people are looking way, way too into this.

  • 05.10.2006 6:09 PM PDT

I'll be on my own side.

Not sure if it's relevant, but Cortana is the name of a sword, lending even more credibility to the claim that it is indeed, sword, not source.

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  • 05.10.2006 6:10 PM PDT
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Thats what I think, at the end of the work, it doesn't sound like "ed" it sounds like "ce"

from the beginning, I thought it was source, how could someone get sword out of that. Plus it makes sence that cortana is his source, not sword..!

  • 05.10.2006 6:13 PM PDT
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Yes, I agree with the maojority that sword makes much more sense. However, since Marty said Cortana says "sword"... and since it's already been fairly established that Gravemind's voice can be heard in the background... then is it possible that Gravemind is saying source at the same moment she says sword? I dont think Bungie couldn't have noticed the "ss" sound... so they must have purposefully left it in there.... i dunno, just theorizin...

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  • 05.10.2006 6:18 PM PDT
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I edited my first post so that the page to where I found this is linked.

Sorry for posting so much, but I feel that this topic is very important and clears up one of the major theories. If it weren't for the fifty thousand topics on "OMG GRAVEMIND IS TAKNG OVER CORTANA!!1!1111!" then more people could see this.

...Maybe I should just post my findings in the Cortana lore topic.

  • 05.10.2006 6:30 PM PDT