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Subject: Language Barrier?
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What happened in h2? In CE you couldn't understand what the elites were saying unless you played it backwards. So...did MC and every one else just learn the covenant language, or did the covenant just decide to learn english before they invade our planet. One thing I don't get, when you fight the elites on Cairo Station you can understand them, but you play delta halo and the prophet of truth(don't know if that's the right prophet) I think that's right, any ways the prophet is talking on the communicator holograhm whatever it is and Cortana is like, "Lemme translate", soo, did MC just get stupid again? Or was the prophet speaking in a higher form of their language. What about grave mind? How did it learn english. I know it's just a game, but I'm still curious.

A THOUGHT...
I just had a thought, I'm not up to date on all the theories so don't hate. Since Grave Mind kept the prophet of well, the other prophet. Grave Mind kept him alive, so shouldn't the flood, if they are operated by Grave Mind, I think, shouldn't Captain Keys be alive too?

  • 06.09.2006 1:43 PM PDT
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GraveMind is like a super-flood. he only kept prophet whatshis-blam!-face alive coz he is amazing. that lil egg thingy killed keyes easily.

oh and would you rather of had all the cut scenes in elite tounge while playing the arbiter? not getting any of his story line or objectives? and the pause menu in elite language too?

Dude? think before you post.

  • 06.09.2006 1:46 PM PDT
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as far as i remember from the books, the Covenent developed a translation device and they do speak English on several occasions, their first message after wiping out a coloney i think was
" Your destruction is the will of the Gods, as we are their instruments"
For the majority of the games they usually just yell at the chief, or i guess, don't use the translater...

  • 06.09.2006 1:47 PM PDT
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Posted by: johnny_deg
GraveMind is like a super-flood. he only kept prophet whatshis-blam!-face alive coz he is amazing. that lil egg thingy killed keyes easily.

oh and would you rather of had all the cut scenes in elite tounge while playing the arbiter? not getting any of his story line or objectives? and the pause menu in elite language too?

Dude? think before you post.


When you are the arbiter it would be in english, and if you heard the humans talk it would seem to the covenant that the humans are speaking in another language, which they are.

  • 06.09.2006 1:55 PM PDT
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That confused me too. Here's what I think. I think that when it was Covenant-Covenant talk, they were realyl speaken there language. When it was Covenant-Human/Oracle/Gravemind talk, they were speaking english.

  • 06.09.2006 2:16 PM PDT
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Halo 1: 2nd Mission "Halo", Transition from first valley to second vally in Warthog
Quote: Cortana:

I've hacked into the covenant battle net. Ther're acutally broadcasting tactical data on un-encripted channels. We should show them who we're dealing with. Master Cheif. I'm going to use your suits trans-com system to moniter their chatter.


That tells you all you need to know.

[Edited on 6/9/2006]

  • 06.09.2006 2:21 PM PDT
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We must always fear evil men...
But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most
and that is the indifference...
of good men.

nice.

  • 06.09.2006 2:22 PM PDT

2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Wait a minute if you play back the Elites words in Halo CE you can understand what they're saying? o.O

  • 06.09.2006 2:30 PM PDT

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When you are the arbiter it would be in english, and if you heard the humans talk it would seem to the covenant that the humans are speaking in another language, which they are.


well thats like saying if we watched a video from a spannish persons point of view about something in english we'd still know what the english people are saying because we speak english. you right the covenant dont understand english but we do and thats why we hear marines speak in english from the arbiters point of view

  • 06.09.2006 2:45 PM PDT
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The Arbiter, I think, only speaks English when he talked to the Master Chief, Gravemind, and the Oracles.

  • 06.09.2006 3:00 PM PDT