Cybertronian language translator
Would older Cybertronians have somewhat more difficulty adapting to using a new language, or a completely different language like ones spoken by organics due to the possible difficulty in physically replicating some sounds– Even if their processors don’t actually struggle all that much in regards to learning it, and adapting to using it was the primary struggle?
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Ratchet: “Remarkable… What is ?” (looks it up) “THE HUMANS ENGAGE IN WIDESPREAD CASUAL DRUG USE ?”ģ) We don’t know about how age (hardware age, age overall, etc.) affects Cybertronians in regards to mental acuity as it relates to language learning. Well done, Arcee.”īulkhead: (Looking at the menu) “They have 50 different words for fuel fluids alone! THEY HAVE 50 DIFFERENT FUEL FLUIDS!” It is good to learn more about the native life before we attempt to engage with them directly This is potentially valuable cultural information.
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Optimus: “We should be careful not to transgress on any contested or sensitive human territories. Although I suppose it makes sense, they must require more energy than other smaller, simpler organics. Is this desert area so barren because they’ve stripped it of nutrient giving material? How do they process or store it all?” Ratchet: “These are all ingestible? They can fuel themselves with ALL OF THIS? Beings so tiny… I wouldn’t have imagined. Biologically–”Īrcee: “I did some recon and found this.” (Shows a paper take out menu.) The humans aren’t so different from the other organic life here, they just appear to have higher cognitive functions. These are organics, if the rest of the organic land animals we’ve seen on this planet so far are anything to go by, they have a primary diet of grasses or plant matter, perhaps mild carnivorous tendencies, something along those lines. It was weird, they seemed to go in and out pretty quickly… Maybe they don’t like to eat around others? Do we know if humans are defensive over food? They all looked different, maybe they only eat around their own group or something.” They have this place called a cafe where they source their fuel, like a canteen or bar, but they seem to be able to eat pretty much anything, so I’m not sure what they were doing. Maybe a social ritual. We never see them eat solids of any kind in TFP that I can recall.īut I can imagine them initially being surprised at learning about humans and human language, and how extremely different life forms on Earth are and how the language reflects that.Īrcee: “I did a little drive around to check out the locals.
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are all totally foreign as concepts to Cybertronians.įood items or similar are somewhat irrelevant to them, so they might struggle with that in terms of building vocabulary In TFP they have one primary source of fuel, energon, although it does have variations like engex and other refined forms. We see this a little bit when Ultra Magnus asks Optimus what a kilt is after Agent Fowler mentions it, and Optimus admits he has no clue.Ĭlothes, or items like shoes, etc. We don’t know exactly.Ģ) There are some concepts and words that would just not translate, and some concepts that are familiar but so different with humans that it would be completely bizarre to them. The effectivity or accuracy of work-arounds may vary.įor example, can a Cybertronian replicate a glottal stop effectively? So many human speech sounds depend on the glottis, something they don’t have, but may have an equivalent for. So there may be a real physical difficulty for them when speaking English, at least at first. So how do they replicate the sounds of human speech, which are highly dependent on our actual physiology? We know that in some TF media, Cybertronians have a tongue equivalent (glossa), but is that the case in TFP? I can’t recall ever seeing a bot stick out their tongue or ever seeing one when their mouths are open wide, like when yelling.
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They also might look things up in real time fast enough to learn on the go to supplement base knowledge– It’s handy when your brain is basically a high end computer!īut what we do absolutely know is that they’re not organic. A couple things I’ve been thinking about lately:ġ) We aren’t sure how the translation process/language learning process is for Cybertronians, even though there are several effective and reasonably plausible ways for them to have learnt English.