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10/3/2010 2:12:57 AM
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When did the covenant start speaking English?
I'm sure this is a noobish question but I don't have as much of an understanding on the series as I'm sure most of you do.
In Reach, I have never heard an alien speak English. But in Halo 2 and 3, they spoke it. And the grunts were hilarious.
I AM CONFUSE
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Skippy851 (Reach they don't speak english to make thems seem more scary and a threat).[/quote]I do not experience this effect. What I do experience is like any Earth Language I don't know: Sheer Annoyance. Only makes me want to kill them even more. Also makes it so I can't have fun. It was cool sneaking up on Covenant and hearing them say cool and funny things. Now all I get is garbage. The funny lines gave me incentive to actually replay the campaign. In Reach, I have NO reason to replay the campaign.
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Putting aside entertainment reasons (Reach they don't speak english to make thems seem more scary and a threat). Stroy wise it comes down to a couple of thins. First, By reach The UNSC still don't know much about their foe despite decades of war. Second, Cortana being the most advanced AI know at that point, was able to translate the enemy speech patterns. So come Halo 2 she had learnt enough about the covenant to understand and translate them. Rember on Delta Halo, Regret was giving a sermon in the covenant language then Cortana translated it to English. That's when your orders went from capture to kill Regret. Naturally this kind of information about their language and her translation program would have been passed on to ONI and UNSC hierachy. The Covenant have always know english. When they attacked Harvest they sent a message saying "Your Destruction is the will of the gods and we are their instrument". That was at the start of the war, so they have know how to speak it before the war started. So in Halo 3 The Elites use english when dealing with Humans as they are now allies. Truth use enlish when dealing with Humans as well.
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They learned English in or before the year 2525. Many Covenant soldiers learned human languages for tactical advantage. The UNSC had managed to decipher some forms of the Covenant's verbal languages and commonly issued translators to soldiers. I would presume that the Fleet of Particular Justice, which is the Covenant force that attacked Reach, largely spoke in a language or dialect that the UNSC had not translated.
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i heard a grunt, while it was sleeping, once say *strange, i dream in english* made me lol so much
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] squirrelcaboose Welcome to Halo 101: The covenent needed to learn human language and so they assigned the learning of english to their unholiest member, the Grunt. The grunts learned the human language and soon the covenent made traslators, exept for the grunts that learned english. The grunts enjoyed human culture so much that a black market was invented with grunts selling human soup opera's and songs.[/quote] "As such, they are constantly monitoring the void for traces of human communication and have developed a clear understanding of two or even three human languages." exactly my friend, exactally
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] x STAR5CREAM x Rosetta Stone wasn't out at the time. [/quote] ha ha lol thats hilarious!!! [Edited on 10.02.2010 6:47 PM PDT]
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besides bungie said in one of their update that none of the covenant speak english in reach to make them a more distant enemy and seem less friendly
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Welcome to Halo 101: The covenent needed to learn human language and so they assigned the learning of english to their unholiest member, the Grunt. The grunts learned the human language and soon the covenent made traslators, exept for the grunts that learned english. The grunts enjoyed human culture so much that a black market was invented with grunts selling human soup opera's and songs.
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if what I've read in Contact harvest so far is anything to go on the covenant did not know English before they attacked Harvest. There a a number of examples of this in the books most prominent would be human-brute first contact. In Fall of Reach Cortana was said to have deciphered more of the covenant languages. that means the UNSC already had something of an understanding, even if that understanding was "Wort= Go" no doubt by the time of the covenant civil war any gaps in our understanding of their languages would have been filled by the separatists.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] The Miller I'm sure this is a noobish question but I don't have as much of an understanding on the series as I'm sure most of you do. In Reach, I have never heard an alien speak English. But in Halo 2 and 3, they spoke it. And the grunts were hilarious. I AM CONFUSE[/quote] Its not a noobish question, all that happened is that Cortana is sent to the pillar of autum and from there Spartan helmets translate languages...
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Honourable Elite [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Jason 735 The Covenant never "spoke english" in the games, but their language was translated for you. Starting in Halo:CE, you could understand grunts, and then in Halo 2 you understand the rest of them.[/quote]Except for Buggers, Hunters and Jackals. They were never translated.[/quote]Dude, the Jackals speak English. Granted its masked phrases containing 4 letter words, but swearing in English is still English.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] x STAR5CREAM x Rosetta Stone wasn't out at the time. [/quote] Classic :D
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Jason 735 The Covenant never "spoke english" in the games, but their language was translated for you. Starting in Halo:CE, you could understand grunts, and then in Halo 2 you understand the rest of them.[/quote]Except for Buggers, Hunters and Jackals. They were never translated.
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Translation devices, my friend. Plus, Elites started speaking English in Halo 3 because of their alliance with humans.
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The Covenant never "spoke english" in the games, but their language was translated for you. Starting in Halo:CE, you could understand grunts, and then in Halo 2 you understand the rest of them.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] frgt to link gt They never did. The Mark VI suit from halo 2 and 3 has a built in translator[/quote] Not true. If I'm not mistaken Grunts pride themselves on knowing some earth languages. This is from Halowiki
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well seeing as though they have 4 mandibles. no jaw. and idk about a tounge. so im pretty sure its a physical impossiblility for them to speak english. at least outside of the video game world.
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They got their hands on an English copy of Rosetta Stone. Case solved.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Beast360 When Master cheif took his helmet off[/quote] To reveal... ANOTHER HELMET! but yeah. Halo 1, we got translators, thoug they grunts really shouldn't have sounded like -blam!- zombies in reach, cuz they dont in 1.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] howlrunner13 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] x STAR5CREAM x Rosetta Stone wasn't out at the time. [/quote] Bahahahahah! Nice. We started understanding them because Cortana was able to translate it.[/quote]how about Hood? Explain that. And practically with Johnson too. And probably all of the Marines
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They never did. The Mark VI suit from halo 2 and 3 has a built in translator
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Maybe because it's a game and fiction.. yeah that's what i'm thinking.
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they began speaking English before reach but would you want your enemies hearing your war plans.Plus the unsc still didn't know allot about the covenant so that other language really relays allot of mystery in the game.
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they do speak english in reach just they also speak their native language too
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] XSaint VeritasX [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] MegaMuffin16 Cortana's learned technology made it able for us to understand them. But they've known english for as long as we've been at war with them[/quote] Nice to see someone with some actuall knowledge of the story for once. Although it actually says they knew our language before they even attacked us.[/quote]yeah
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] x STAR5CREAM x Rosetta Stone wasn't out at the time. [/quote];) Translators.
