Perfered Translator

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2002-10-07 11:13pm

XaLEv wrote:
Slartibartfast wrote:...A side effect would be that once you are affected by either, you will be completely unable to actually learn a different language, because it will always sound like your own, mostly...
Not so. Aeryn is learning English.

How can she learn English if she can't hear it?

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2002-10-07 11:21pm

Slartibartfast wrote:How can she learn English if she can't hear it?

She is learning it, so obviously she can hear it, and recognize it as a separate language from her own.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-10-07 11:35pm

Maybe she can ignore or shut out the microbes input?

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2002-10-07 11:56pm

Maybe I missed a lot of episodes where it's stated that she's learning english. Could you name an episode or quote? I've read on the website that there's a new chick who's basically immune to the microbes (or the opposite, they kinda harm her) so she has to learn everyone's language independently - they can understand her, tho.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2002-10-08 12:16am

Her name is Sikozu. Her body cannot tolerate the microbes for some reason. I can't remember if it was stated what they do to her.

Anyway, in one of the last episodes they played, Aeryn was studying a book which was presumably made for her by Crichton so she could learn English. IIRC, Chiana came in and asked her how it was going and specifically mentioned English.

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-10-08 12:39am

Whoa! Cool!

Mr. Mister · Post by **Mr. Mister** » 2002-10-08 03:09am

Beyond that, ever since Season One they had her mangling idiomatic expressions in English, and Chricton correcting her. One of my favorites was when she referred to some other girl with the phrase, "She gives me a woody." ("Uh, you mean, 'the Willies'").

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2002-10-08 06:14am

I suppose my preferred translator is a 3PO, and my perfered translator would be the translator microbes.