How Transformers speak English- NOT the reason you think! How Predacons know Cybertronian and more!
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- A package tackling Transformers Prime language questions!
How Predacons know Cybertronian: 6:56
What is Bumblebee speaking?: 9:15
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Bruh the way Optimus looked at ultra mangus got me laughing
same lmao
the added text made it better
Optimus: (confused robot noises)
The way you spelled Magnus got me laughing
@@hero-bo7qc ahahaha lmao i just noticed
hero PFFF- Mangus!!
“What’s a kilt”
The most manly dress you can hid some 20 knives in
This comment is a (short) rollercoaster!
Yep- they even have a hairy crotch bag
what
Blizzard Gaming
No. I mean 20 10in knives because thirty is excessive
Don’t forget a chancla and some tacos
I love the idea that KO is just trolling everyone and having fun with languages
You make due with a war going on
The fact that knockout just sprinkles French in his speech is just great
And some German
@@dimdive7997 Herr Kommandant! (Knockout likes to embrace the fact that he is a European car lol)
@@emperorkumquat Exactly. Everytime he said it I got really irritated because my brain couldn't deal with two languages at the same time
YEAH I LOVE IT
Random question but....
*was knockout like-*
*y'know.....*
*gay......?*
"How do we translate pizza into a pizzaless culture?"
It is a daunting task, but it must be done, for none deserve the cruelty of living without pizza!
Energon pizza
This is why the War for Cybertron started and ended with the planet being destroyed
Well, Pizza has no non-italian equivillant, so its word wouldn't be translated.
michelangelo the teenage mutant ninja turtle, i know its you
Pizzaless culture....there has never been a sadder term
So Bumblebee is pretty much speeking Cybertronian Morse code in the show right?.
Yeah something like that
I always figured bumble bee communicated directly in raw data, unprocessed through his language unit.
Kind of like if your computer displayed everything in binary.
what if ther morse code is the same an our morse code and that's how Rafael undersands him
and I know that he doesint realy speak it but that's just an explanation to how raf understands him
Rather I've always figured he spoke something closer to Cybertronian Binary, Rafs computer expertise would make it easy enough for him to understand.
Especially as all of Ratchets bemoaning Bees Vocoder and relating it to his T-Cog makes me think the Vocoder/translator is Biotech as well.
Megatron in Mandarin Chinese is terrifying
It's a good match for Welker's performance.
Bastante de hecho
Speaking in Mandarin, he scares like the Mongols.
Where can I find it?
@@melotta3321 at the end of the video?
Ultra Magnus: What's a kilt?
Optimus: Just smile and nod boys, just smile and nod
Cybertronions are just humans that don’t need to pay for cars
Or maybe a personal jet.
@@theorcapuppet4653 one of the perks of being a decepticon
They're their own cars, and that's so so cool. Good thing humans can't do that. Like imagine a flesh car just driving around? No thanks
@@BlueJaysBrudda That's technically what a cybertronian thinks too tho lol. They are using their own flesh after all.
@@86Fallowcp oh god
" WHERE DID THE CONS GET A DRAGON?!"
" Whats a dragon?"
Me: " yeah, wonder how long it took Miko to explain that one English word to them! XD
No time at all cuz they already knew the word being hidden on earth well before the start of the show, working with the military. And being technoligcally advanced life forms that can draw energy from our computers and access internet by simple plugging there cord into a cpu.
@@12345legofreak did you not watch the video?
Miko: ...Imagine a lizard but its huge like as tall as you guys
Bulkhead and Ratchet: Isn't that just a Tyrannosaurus Rex?
Miko: No! now imagine the giant lizard,and it has wings and it can breathe fire
Bulkhead and Ratchet: So that's what a dragon is.
“An ancient flying flesh& blood based organic life form believed to be able to take flight& strike with fire. “ quite easy tbh
Brucite imagine a horse, but it has wings and a horn
Shockwave: You know, maybe you should tone down the Megatron usurption just a bit.
Starscream, a "known racist": [starts mouthing different cybertronian slurs at Shockwave]
Now I could just imagine him running into fouler and saying Ni****
@@randomuser5443 th-cam.com/video/8JOb5LEnRoc/w-d-xo.html
@@randomuser5443 He probably would even if he wasn't racist. Starscream is the type to delibrately use whatever will antagonize you the most.
@@RequiemPoete And even since he is racist, he's racist in the sense of structural differences. Like racism between elves and humans. Starscream probably wouldn't comprehend why we would discriminate based on skin color but would probably say it based on its historical connotations if he picked a bit of history up during his meanderings through our internet
@@ValravnsArchive He'd probably be super interested in our flight sims and air combat games xD
Another fruit for thought: During the Breakdown/Arachnid vs Bulkhead/Arcee final confrontation, Breakdown says “Two bots, one stone” which is an obvious reference to “Kill two birds with one stone”, further displaying Breakdown’s (at the very least) mild interest in human culture and light-hearted side.
In germany we use "Two flies with one slap" which makes sense, but why the hell would you kill birds??
@@dimdive7997 If they are a real jacka-s
@@dimdive7997 seagulls can be annoying
@@dimdive7997 While the above comment is rather amusing, the phrase is hunting related. Think of hunting something like pheasants or turkeys. If your aim was to bag two birds, you are expecting to get one bird per shot (gun, sling, arrow, thrown rock, doesn't matter what you use). But if you get both of them with the same shot... See where I'm going? :)
@@warriormaiden9829 Yep you're right! ^^
“ *But grammar is fun, wait come back* ”
^ my actual life
grammar is my worst enemy
whether it's English or my native language
Well.....Grammar Nazi do appreciate grammar......not sure if that’s good or bad
@@emperorkumquat i know the pain, i explain the tech that goes into tanks, as well as how to apply the new stuff, people too run away from me, but that's probably because i could feesably build my own tank
Fancy seeing u here. Didn't think this is the place I were gonna be cuz I actually watch ur steve saga vids. Lol
I always laugh at Optimus' reaction to Magnus' "What's a kilt?", like, has no clue either XD
"I find it best to simply nod and mobilize." XD
I also already knew about the universal translator and really like the concept. Read about it on the wiki and was like "YEAH makes sense!"
When I write my TFP fanfics, I always write Bumblebee's dialogue in bold to show that he speaks differently than the others. Also because I like to try guess what he's really saying (when I'm not making up dialogue myself, that is).
If Bumblebee's bleeps are a sort of morse code language, it could explain that Raf might know the whistle language/morse code fluently...
...except what Bumblebee bleeps is probably still Cybertronian and would thus be a DIFFERENT morse code than the Earth one.
So yeah. Still no clue on how Raf can understand Bumblebee.
In the books the characters have difficultys understanding Bumblebee after he lost his voice. They have to "interpret" what he's saying and some are better at that, some are worse. Optimus had a hard time learning how to understand him
maybe his universal translator has seen better days??
@@dimdive7997 Yeah, but in Prime they seem to understand him pretty well. The bold text I mentioned is, as I said, to show that he doesn't speak normally.
From what I remember of the show, the Decepticons don't seem to have a problem understanding Bumblebee (at least, those who actually interact with him and are seen hearing him bleep).
At least Megatron understood Bumblebee when he was inside his head. Even when his body isn't real, apparently Bumblebee still can't speak normally. :/ (though he can in Cyberverse, but there it's his own mind so that might explain it).
I don't remember any Decepticons responding to Bee's bleeps in a way that shows they don't understand him. I think Knock Out might understand him, don't really remember if they had actual conversations though.
I'm not sure if Starscream and Bee spoke with each other in Operation Bumblebee, but Star didn't seem to show any lack of understanding of him either.
Anyway, my point here is, if that beeping language Bumblebee's speaking is something the Cybertronians have to learn and isn't just automatically translated through their universal translators, then why would the Decepticons take the effort of learning to understand Bee?
I can understand with interrogation, but still, it's easier with a cortical psychic patch, so...
Eh, it's hard for me to understand this.
Then again, fanfics are fanfics and not canon, so whatever works I guess, as long as it doesn't stray all away from known facts.
I only have the first book, have never read Exiles, Retribution or the Covenant, so my background knowledge of Prime's past is limited, though I often read on the wiki, so that gives me some knowledge I guess.
Before the book analysis video, I didn't know whether the books or the video games were more canon in context to Prime, I assumed either of them could work and so I decided to just make my own Prime past by combining the plot of the book and the games, as well as adding a few elements from IDW. At least, for one of my fics.
And despite the errors I can now see in that fic, having watched these analysis videos, I don't feel like changing what I've already established in that AU. At the very least I have more information to go on for my next fics, to make them more true to the lore and stuff.
In the end, though, they are fanfics and AUs, so it really doesn't matter how much they fit into the lore or if the concepts fit completely with what we've learned from these analysis videos. I just write what I think is good and fun and just have fun with it.
@@dimdive7997 You are right about that, but a lot of the time his beep box (lol) cut out as well. He couldn't "speak" and sometimes it was just static, so I think that is where the communication problems were
@@Rubywing4 That is a good point about Bumblebee in Megatron's head. You know, perhaps he could have spoken, but Bumblebee still believed that he couldn't, so he had limited himself unintentionally
Everyone: *learns English with a translator*
Sound wave: *ctrl c ctrl v*
Lol
Lmao
Noooo... because it's true xd
This is why Soundwave is best bot. He won’t need to lift much fingers to learn every language on Earth 😂
Then Soundwave could summon spirits if he 'learns' latin
" I AM SO DUMB!"
I feel you, Bulkhead! XD
He is better on breaking than thinking
@@penkagenova7073 Aren't we all
That is a mood right there
One thing that bugs me a lot is how do cybertronian weapons work? Like the ones that come out of their arms? Do they ever run out of ammo? Does the ammo affect them? Were does the ammo come from? Would really love an explanation for this! Anyways awesome video! This channel is so underated!
Edit: Also another thing concerning the weapons topic is...how do they get stored? Just look at Optimus. He has this big cannons and long, shiny blades stored on his Hands/arms.
Edit: thanks for the answers! Really answered so many questions!
That's why I preffer the conventional weapons. I mean, they were just civilians before the war, right?
I like to think that ballistic type weapons (such as weapons that shot bullets or missal's) require ammo and to be reloaded. While energy based weapons (pretty much any laser) run off the energy of the bot
they explained it in the series about the ammo part, their ammo is energon their life blood if you want the episode about them talking about it its when starscream teamed up with MECH he pretty much gave a brief explanation about it.
@@whyhe11othere well that explains some things. But how do they work? Also were cybertronians born with the weapons? If they use too much ammo do they die? How is the energon(blood or energy) get converted into plasma? Also how do they store? Optimus having a sword and a weapon in one arm is just crazy. Just look at that big blade and the size of that weapon. Anyways thanks!
@@unhlylettuceyt8722 I believed their manually equipped. Warrior Class and Worker Class vehicons must have them installed, and most likely so did gladiators and any other military personal for self defense and war. They must run on energon, because that's most likely where it's energy is from, while hand held weapons must run on a battery like in star wars. I dont know how it's turned in plasma energy, probably just alien tech since energon is explosive and probably through some type of converted heat is turned into lasers. And having equipped swords and a gun in one arm is possible, since their not in the same slot, Optimus' blade is above his hand, while his gun is literally his upper arm. And no i dont believe they were born with weapons, when the war for cybertron began like every cybertronian that wasnt a pacifist probably has weapon systems installed for war or self defense.
1:56
"Less like technologic, more like biologic"
I think i know whose line in the show this is ^^
Tilki Ding ding ding, you got it!
"You're a human Jack. Can you build me a small intestine?"
@@emperorkumquat WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT
@@knockdown3620 Starscream: "Now, a T-cog isn't technology; it is biology."
“It’s not technology, it’s biology”
That actually answers my questions about how a LOT of the Transformers series have Transformers speak perfect *insert dub language here* even when they show up on Earth for the first time…
This was actually really interesting but like....why is the Mandarin dub Megatron more terrifying than the English one?
Humans fear what is unknown to them.
I was thinking they got a good match to side-by-side with Welker's original takes on the lines.
The joy of us Chinese people XD
I know I'm gonna regret asking this but could someone link a video to it?
Edit: Nevermind I found it. That is bone chilling
@@MechaNexus lol, you're wrong. This is about voice. Mandarin voice is more deeper, louder and terrifying.
i can't believe the cybertronians has to live without pizza
I love optimus prime reaction you can really see his thought process in that "What's a kilt" moment.
"Should I tell him or... No I'm not explaining this. I'm not gonna scar him."
How would explaining what a kilt is scar him?
You know that people usually don't wear underwear with kilts right
@@cupcakeprime559 How do I delete unwanted information?
Tbh, transformers don't have genitals, so.......
*Then again.....*
Bumblebee, stop lubricating on him.
@@cliffordbenenati7373 We shouldn't speak of that moment.....
So would that mean that Knockout is basically an "Earthaboo" to a degree?
Euroboo more specifically
This would actually make a lot of sense, though it wouldn't explain how the seeker Starscream rose and eventually turned into a zombie instantly knew English, but I guess those are just some of the inconsistencies.
I should add to this saying that it'd be hard to connect to the internet in the middle of the desert.
There is no evidence that he is speaking English. This might be a case like Predaking that it could be Cybertronian dubbed for the viewer
(edited because I misunderstood)
seeker starscream?
@@kennethsatria6607 he is talking about skyquake
@@omarsalem1219
Skyquake didn't talk when he was turned into TerrorCon.
In the bayverse, the autobots knew English and other languages through the worldwide web and since their advanced autonomous beings they adapted quickly. The decepticons also know English and other languages but they only speak cybertronian because they detest Earth and it’s inhabitants. Megatron also was online when he was being studied just frozen but he probably heard everything and overtime learned at least English but still detested humans and spoke in cybertronian mixed with English.
So I always assumed the Aligned autobots and decepticons studied and downloaded the worldwide web while they were on Earth so could easily communicate with the inhabitants.
But your answer makes sense, because if other alien races dont have something like the worldwide web like the humans then cybertronians probably used universal translators to better communicate with them.
how come he didn't get his G1 fusion cannon in the 2007 movie?
Not to mention, there are definitely scenes were both Megatron and Starscream are speaking to humans. Remember when Megatron spoke to agent Fowler? Or when Starscream made a brief alliance with mech?
Soundwave: *Downloads data on all Earth languages into his brain and never speaks except once*
Knockout: *Probably not taught 'Human' due to being a Decepticon but trolls everyone with European words anyways*
She-human
She-human
Why did you reply this twice? Did you hack me?
@@HOLDENPOPE oops, my apologies. No, I didn’t hack you LOL, this happens sometimes when you have lack of proper Internet connection, which I currently have.
First I thought "that's overcomplicating things" but actually it's better them downloading languages, wish that idea could be explored, of course it's kinda hard to do on a show or movie but it's an amazing idea for Transformers lore, also please give us a universal Cybertronian language hasbro, I wanna beep with the boys
#BeepwiththeBoys That can spread 😂
@@theberrby6836 YESS
That kilt scene with Prime and Magnus gets me every time
This was an excellent video ^^
One thing to consider as well is that, well the names of Cybertronians probably aren’t even their real names? As in their names would be in Cybertronian, but the translator would simply find words that best suit the Cybertronian name, and convert them into English. This might explain the double word names (probably not the right term) such as Skyquake, Starscream, Bulkhead, and Cliffjumper. And for characters like Ultra Magnus and Optimus Prime, both Ultra, and Prime might be titles?
Yes, their names would have a different ring in their own languages, but I am sure that Starscream for example would just be their words for "star" and "scream". Some of their names could be including titles too!
Besides, their real names might not be physically pronounceable by humans, so hence why the translations are necessary
That begs the question whether the Cybertronian translation of Knock Out's name is
"To render unconscious" or "Super hot person".
@@affsteak3530 I like to believe his name in their language also includes the two concepts... Who knows, Beauty Strike? XD Something because puns don't translate
What about Bumblebee? Would his "real" name be derived from a bee-like animal native to Cybertron?
It makes a lot of sense, especially as it's well known there are multiple cybertronian colonies besides cybertron so it would be a natural invention
Mandarin Megatron is scary af!
Also Optimus had me dieing of laughter when he was like "Wtf happened up there?"
I love the idea of Soundwave going to the Microsoft store and downloading all of the language packs and also the thought of Soundwave running on windows 10 still because he doesn't trust 11
I got a serious question: What do language students after school, sleep under foreign bridges?
Translation is what I am looking at. Possibly embassy work
Oh boy haha my dad told me something like that when I was younger haha well it was either that or computer science, thank God cause I love computer science but I'm learning a third language currently so I hope I could take back that dream in the future
Cybertron and earth are linked they even said also english is Cybertronion language but the letters are different
Um... language is a pretty useful degree, more useful than some others for sure. You can become a translator, work for an international company, and just generally speaking- having a language degree to which you can add to your resume can make you more hirable. College can increase your earnings in virtually any field.
@@iamagoodperson9064 Um no, that was never said in Aligned
This is genius deduction!
And the Bumblebee explanation is very interesting, if he was unable to speak with a regular voice like its a disability and had to resort to a sort of basic cybertronian code, then its possible that's how Raph can still understand him like the other autobots, cause he has an affinity for computers and even cybertronian ones in some cases.
So its not a total mystery unlike with Sari's origins
I absolutely love etymology and linguistics so naturally xenolanguages and alien communication is very fun to hypothesise about! The universal translator method is actually confirmed canon in other continuities (such as spotlight: Cliffjumper in IDW which takes lots of influence from Aligned). I also think that Cybertronian names must also be translated, and it must be one of those languages that is very easy to make puns with, on account of all the names that are also puns somehow!
10:09 when the trees start talking Cybertronian
"We've learned Earth's languages through Ebey." -Optiprimus.
Honestly I would love if someone took a serious crack at a Cybertronian language and made a short or episode of some kind with that as what they primarily speak with subtitles.
They had a concept like this in Green Lantern the Animated Series. They mentioned the universal translator in the ring during an episode when Kilowag said a certain word in English(let’s say orange) rhymed with word in his language. Letting the audience know that even if we heard English, it’s usually from Hal’s perspective. But it was cool how the show brought it up to explain why even Razor could speak the language and understand everyone...even if his ring was red during the whole series
"Our technology isn't perfect" said as the image translator in the background flips out from the pages of the book turning is absolutely brilliant
can we just appreciate the effort and thoughts put in in the making of this video
Yes.
Yes!
Now this was the kind of approaching I was looking for this issue, I kinda feel like a dummy for not even imagine that possibility, I guess the internet thing took too much space jaja but anyways it doesn't sound so inaccurate as well, after all they're bionic beings so maybe the chances of learning from internet like an AI would do could be a chance as well
I believe they use a translator at first but learn it traditionally after being to earth once or twice. Plus I think Unicron is a special case because he is a god and litterally the earth in Transformers Prime.
Everybody talking about Ultra Magnus asking about a kilt, but I'm just cracking up at the Wreckers going "What's a dragon?"
I never even thought of the possibility of a universal translator. 🧠 ⤴️Big brain.
This is the only time I'll ever care about English, because this is FASCINATING. Thank you for this explanation! I had no idea that sylbo and the Turkish bird language existed, and it makes so much more sense for Bumblebee to be using something akin to that! Seriously, fantastic video!
Hi emperor kumquat. I am a new subscriber but i really like your content. I grew up with tf prime and you really opened my eyes about many of the concepts. keep up the great work
Thank you~!
@@emperorkumquat OMG thanks for replying i am a big fan
@@siddharth9288
Ultra Magnus: "What's a kilt?"
Me: *Uncontrollable laughter*
You should do a what if smokescreen took the matrix of leadership
YASS
so, as I’ve been re-watching the series, I have a whole new perspective on it overall. Now that I’m older, it would be really sad to see Optimus prime die in that scene, but also, I think it would’ve been really great in terms of character development, to watch smokescreen grow as a bot, and mature as well as gain acceptance from the rest of the team as the new leader and as a prime.
Soundwave being able to download all the language packs is why he is Superior
It's an interesting theory, but remember they are still machines. Living machines, but machines nonetheless. Remember Mech learned enough about Cybertronians to build one themselves in the form of Nemesis Prime. And while NP had no spark it was remote controlled like a corpse on a voodoo spell.
I would be willing to bet that ANY Cybertronian could have the info on their drives read directly, I would imagine such a procedure would involve having to kill the Cybertronian and physically remove their drive and reading it in to a reader. Case in point when Bulkhead was infected with the Synthen formula Knockout was going to amputate Bulkhead's head presumably to salvage the info. So while you might not be able to force info out of a living Cybertronian mind, you can rip out it's brain and directly read the data from it if you don't care about keeping them alive.
So I think Ratchet's comment about Soundwave was more about Soundwave's will power and Ratchet's doubt he would break. Additionally while a Cybertronian might not be able to directly download knowledge, I bet any can willingly delete information off of their own drive and force themselves to BSoD like Soundwave, but judging by The Autobot's reaction such a tactic might be insanely risky and could be considered similar to bashing your head into a wall to knock yourself out or if you could delibrately give yourself a stroke on demand.
Mech created something like a Cybertronian, but not with all the complete parts and everything. And besides, if drives could be read, why ever keep Arcee, Cliffjumper, Wheeljack, and Smokescreen alive when they were captured and interrogated? If they could simply kill them and get the information, they would have.
@@emperorkumquat I kind of saw the cortical psychic patch as like a USB drive or if you were going to plug in your camera onto your computer, to look at its memory chip full of photos and videos.
Green lanterns are also like this (considering different species in the corps) having a universal translator, which was brought up in one of the EP of Green lantern: the animated series which have a similar style to Transformers Prime (I think they're animated by the same people not sure)
What happened to Megatron after Predacons Rising?
In my opinion you should see the Megatron Exile fan comic (you can find it on youtube) or just wait for Galvatron Revenge to realese
(Please support the guy becouse in my opinion this can be one of the best transformers movies
@Kayla Jastrzebski That would have been horrible, destroying the development they gave to Megatron entirely! At least make it someone else attacking Cybertron jeez
Kayla Jastrzebski you spoke to one of the producers? That’s really cool!
Wow, Megatron in Mandarin is actually intimidating, like, Shao Kahn level!
I really enjoyed this video. This is the kind of content I like about transformers. I love do dive deep into their lore, their culture, their language and habilitys. All those things that the cartoons don't really explore or show. This video, and all your other videos, makes me even more of a transformer fan than I was. Especially a fan of TFP. Please, keep up with your amazing work!
Mandarin dub Megatron actually sounds like a Powerful Bad Guy™ like he's supposed to instead of someone with a sore throat and I love it
Megatron can't force Autobots to become Deceptions.
Sigma from MMX: *Laughs in Sigma Virus.*
Oh hey, I wasn't the only one thinking of this. Thing is, Sigma could probably turn a Transformer Maverick, considering they have Sparks, which are the equivalent of souls, and Reploids have DNA Souls, so they are kind of similar. I'm not saying it would happen, only that it could.
@@katiemckinney9456 Makes sense.
@@captainrick4513 Also Optimus has Zero outdone on the number of times he's heroically sacrificed himself. That's pretty impressive.
NOT AN ENGLISH MAJOR NOR IN COLLEGE BUT THIS IS VERY INTERESTING
I would love to hear more about Bumblebee, too! It’s been confusing me lately how his language works(and why some humans can understand it), and why it can’t be replaced so easily. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly why
Ok im listening
FunFact: Did you know that the Currency they use are called Shanix Coins?
Also Gold Currency Cards are Very Rare to have, since you can basically buy whatever you want.
Yay I'm the first comment I love your vids
3rd comment actually but whatever
I actually quite liked this, as a person who has trouble with languages I felt it made a lot of sense. I once came up with a concept for a character in the world of My Hero Academia whose ability was to upload information to other people, she was originally existed to explain how a character based on me could learn Japanese,, but pretty much the story in my head became more and more about her. She was a Japanese American who ended up going to Japan to place her out of reach for an organization that wanted to use her abilities for brain washing. One of the ideas I had was that the Japanese that she would teach, would be specific to her, so anyone who she uploaded that information to would speak her version of Japanese and might even pick up her idiosyncrasies. It would be fun to see in story how someone who gained a language from an outside source slowly makes it his own, and how they would be different from someone who learned it the hard way.
Ultra magnus: whats a kilt?
Optimus: [is literally to embarrased to tell ultra magnus he dont know either and just akwardly stares]
I've ALWAYS wondered how visiting species automatically spoke the same language as everyone around them. This was a therapeutic video. lol
It's great to know I'm not the only person who obsesses over this sort of thing.
Bumblebees voice is actually a evolving mathematical algorithm used to interpret speech
I think that Unicorn, having transcended physical form as a result of matter forming around him to become Earth, might've been listening to the billions of Earth languages and conlangs in his sleep, which would explain how he was able to know about dragons.
He is a god, so it's possible
My pet theory is that Soundwave is actually one of the original Primes. It would explain how strange and powerful he is. Not to mention why Soundwave wears a mask and doesn't speak.
We don’t speak English. We speak Cybertronian. It’s just the English dub of the show.
Oh! Do you think through VPN, we can connect to server Tony and servers, and then watch the original, in the original Cybertron in voiceover with English subtitles just like anime?
@@qantaloupemelon2791 if you degenerate flesh creatures were not so primitive, MAYBE you could understand our language!
It's like in Spotlight: Cliffjumper where he boils it down to just another way they can naturally adapt to their surroundings. It's no different than taking on another mode
The "Knockout why can't you just speak like a normal person" sent my sides into orbit.
The "What's a kilt?" "^*Has no clue either*" for some weird reason had me rolling on the floor from laughing
Loving the video tho
Keep it up! I'm proud
Knockout probably has wayyyy to much fun irritating everyone on the Nemesis to stop speaking Earth
I have never thought about this before until now thank you for making this video. I love it when you make videos!
Fowler: pack ur kilts.
Ultra magnus: sir, what’s a kilt?
Me: I’m so done with u magnus
But for real what is a kilt
:") English is not my first language
@@4CHAMUKA It's a type of Scottish skirt
Megatron: speaks some random language
Forgot yo put this in
Optimus: what the f--
You should make a transformers discord!!
Mandarin speaking Megatron sounds more intimidating.
I've always dreamt of a text-to-speech engine with the voice of Peter Cullen.
Now I know that Optimus Prime has it. 😁
Like how in the novelation of the first Bay movie, they first speak various chinese dialects to sam and mikeala
I love how Kumquat can both explain how things work in the Transformers but can also make it funny
I think maybe alpha trion being a record keeper or Mcadam seeing the future they may have kept records of multiple language's since they went to multiple planets like valosatron camanus Earth and beast planet.
As a translating studies student, this topic is perfect! It would be an absolute nightmare for us to make a reliable translator like what you theorize Cybertronians have, but for them? Probably easy. The only real problem is that our computers are incapable of understanding meanings (semantics), so we have to use deep learning. This results in very imperfect translations, so much so that even DeepL makes a lot of mistakes, even though it knows how to write something that is pleasant to read. For Cybertronians, though, making a computer that can understand meanings should not be impossible, give their insanely developed technology, and so the computer learns the language using the internet, and then translates for them. It even explains how the translator can't translate things Cybertronians have no knowledge of, like pizza or kilts. It knows the meaning, but cannot relay it in Cybertronian because it lacks the vocabulary. This is something even us human translators often struggle with. For me, it's often a problem to explain some Czech things to an English-speaking person because they have never heard of that thing, especially customs and traditions and stuff like that.
Lamao when ultra magnus asked optimus his reaction was epic🤣🤣🤣
As a fellow language enthusiast (and meets if we’re being honest) I greatly appreciated this video and share many of your opinions regarding how the show handled the language usage of the Cybertronians
I was going to point out the puns as well as idioms or weekdays, but I'm glad I stuck around and that got addressed.
The way ultra magnus is so imposing and so clueless at the same time goddamnit
Mangus: what's a kilt
Optimus: * looks away and darts his eyes* * uh nothing I don't know lol *
10:14 did he just say uwu??
lmao
I always thought that unicron could hear humans speaking and all life on him
8:35 Knockout: Come to daddy!
Bulkhead: Say hello to mommy!
Breakdown: Say uncle!
Also Knockout is probably the most sexiest transformers out there lol
10:25 😏😏😏😏😏
"Come to papa"
"Run to mommy"
"Say uncle"
I love that one scene
Megatron speaking mandarin dare I say it sounds more intimidated then Frank Welker's megatron
As someone from Scotland a kilt is essentialy a dress worn by men and no we don't wear underwear while wearing a kilt.
This makes so much sense! Thanks for this video!
Also I think I now understand why so many people don't like puns even though I find them hilarious. Thanks for that too! :D
I don't like puns but my foreign friends kept insisting they were great. There is a satisfaction when you are able to understand other languages so deeply, so foreigners can like puns more!
@@emperorkumquat Alright, cool :D
Late to the party but Knockout speaks German at one point too, calling Starscream "Herr Kommandant." It's subtitled on Netflix as "Head Commandant" now, but before they took seasons 2 & 3 off the platform it was subtitled as the former.
I think Knockout has a much deeper appreciation for human cultures than the show lets us see, and that will forever upset me.
Imagine if megatron actually learnt Chinese Mandarin? That would be interesting
What if he learned North Korean dialect to team up with Kim Jong-un Only as a means to completely wipe out human civilization?
I have never imagined optimus confused
Cybertronian languages have been shown be to at least moderately similar to conventional English in previous series (For reference, the IDW Comics, specifically Mirage's bar has English writing labelling the name of the bar), so it's not out of the question that Cybertronian languages are the same when spoken as English, with similar written languages as well. So, obviously some culturally specific words like dragon or college won't be in Cybertronian languages, and cultrually specific Cybertronian words likely wouldn't exist in English or at least have an English counterpart that's an entirely different word with the same meaning.
I really enjoyed this video! I've just started watching Transformers Prime and it's so funny 😂