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[Laughing_Man]

Yeah, it would be nice to see more "realism" with translators. Like non-perfect translations and the occasional weirdness.

[dgcatanisiri]

Star Trek has the occasional Klingon word that doesn't translate - regularly the word "petaQ" makes it through their UT, which roughly translates to useless/garbage, but it's also a curse word, which means there are other nuances to the word that don't make it through a literal translation.

[Wulfram]

Having untranslated aliens would be a good way of adding a sense of exploration.

Mass Effect doesn't have a real universal translator - the translator needs to be programmed with the relevant languages to work, it won't magically work out new species like Star Trek translator.

So if we're First Contacting Andromeda species, we shouldn't understand them

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

Like give them totally different customs. Perhaps flipping the bird is agreement. That could cause some fights initially.

[Navasha]

All good sci-fi requires a certain amount of suspension of disbelief.   Language is one of those points.    I don't think they should spend any amount of time on it because they will never come close to the problems that would come from having multiple languages/social constructs in real life. 

[giveamanafish...]

All good sci-fi requires a certain amount of suspension of disbelief.   Language is one of those points.    I don't think they should spend any amount of time on it because they will never come close to the problems that would come from having multiple languages/social constructs in real life. 

Isn't the OP's point that the writers could at least look at this issue as a plot mechanism, at least think of tryng to give players a sense of the confusion and mystery that comes from meeting a totally new species, one whose language and/or other means of communication can't be dealt with by an universal translator? It could be fun.

[Mdizzletr0n]

It might actually be an interesting (optional and not too easy to come across) side quest to learn a race's language. Which could maybe lead to certain rewards or something else if you learn just to be a dick to them. Lol

[Mdizzletr0n]

It might actually be an interesting (optional and not too easy to come across) side quest to learn a new race's language. Which could maybe lead to certain rewards or something else if you learn just to be a dick to them. Lol