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. 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. 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.
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