I don’t like the concept of “Cybertronians immediately can speak English upon first contact with Earth” and I’ve got some thoughts in my G1-based fic universe about the slow-going initial communications between the bots and the Witwickys when they don’t have a common language. Cybertronians adapt quickly though, and by the time the “Season 2” bots arrive, they’ve made a translation guide so that everyone else can get up to speed super quick

but anyway I’m thinking about how I’ve just decided right now that the Cybertronian language doesn’t have contractions. early on they think they’re getting the hang of it

then Spike says “y’all’d’ve” and Prowl starts to cry

our language doesn’t have contractions like that either. prowl is me.

i always find it a bit funny when people talk about gender-neutral pronouns ‘cause in my language we don’t have gender-neutral anything, like even inanimate objects or numbers are either he or she, we don’t even have it….

Another thing I’m curious about

overgoldengroveunleaving:

Jews of Tumblr – what languages do you speak (both Jewish and secular)? If you could rate them:

1. native speaker

2. fluent, non-native speaker

3. proficient

4. can hold basic conversations

5. know a few words/expressions

(Something that I’m 10000% sure will come up – if you can read Hebrew but don’t speak it, list it as 5. On the flipside, if you can speak a language but can’t read it, list it by your speaking ability. Feel free to add any additional comments!)

My answer: English (1), Hebrew (2), Arabic (3), Spanish (3)

my answer: (1) Hebrew, (2) English, (4) Japanese, (5) Yiddish, Arabic