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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #60 on: August 24, 2008, 07:06:10 PM »
They had the same problem trying to talk to French people but that didn't stop them. Besides, as long as they're in morph then people will still understand them because thought speech is understood by everyone.
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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #61 on: August 24, 2008, 09:23:29 PM »
I always thought thought speech was only understood by people with the chip in their head to convert the language, unless I am thinking of a completely different series.
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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #62 on: August 25, 2008, 12:01:19 AM »
I don't think so, Phoenix. Ax only could understand English because of the translator chip so he can learn any langauge that's why thought-speak in English.

The other Animorophs can't.
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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #63 on: August 25, 2008, 12:16:36 AM »
thought-speak is not in english. it's not in any language. it's like a language of thoughts and images. if you understand english, you hear it as english...or something like that. that was the best way I could explain it.

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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #64 on: August 25, 2008, 12:29:02 AM »
Thought-speak is in whatever language the sender knows or chooses to send and the receiver oicks it up as whatever the lnaguage the sender sent it in.

Ax only understand what the Animorphs say in either thought-speak or normal speak becausse of his chip.
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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #65 on: August 25, 2008, 12:34:28 AM »
So the whole universe understands english?

besides, quote from elfangor:
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almost all species can understand our thought-speak since it works at a level beyond mere words.

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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #66 on: August 25, 2008, 09:49:34 AM »
I believe that morfowt is correct. In the Andalite Chronicles Elfangor is able to speak to Loren using thought speech before his chip translates her English for him.
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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #67 on: August 25, 2008, 11:07:16 AM »
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So the whole universe understands english?

No. Whoever has a translator chip that can..well, translate English

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I believe that morfowt is correct. In the Andalite Chronicles Elfangor is able to speak to Loren using thought speech before his chip translates her English for him.

I remember that passage quite clearly. Elfangor said that when he heard Loren threaten him, he didn't understand what she meant because it takes a while for his chip to translate something.
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Who's doing this?
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Does our ruin benefit the earth, aid the grass to grow and the sun to shine?  Is this darkness in you, too?  Have you passed through this night?

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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #68 on: August 25, 2008, 11:19:46 AM »
That's right, the chip can't translate the language until it has heard enough of the language first. That's why in the Hork-Bajir Chronicles, Aldrea encouraged Dak to talk more until the chip started working. However, Dak could understand her thought speech right away.
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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #69 on: August 25, 2008, 12:22:27 PM »
I guess then it couldn't technically convey thoughts. It would have to convey images or a more profound version of what the whales could "speak". 
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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #70 on: August 25, 2008, 07:28:34 PM »
I always thought the time travel gimmick was a little random fun thing to spice up the story. When it's in a list like that it does seem like a lot. Even though it was only a couple times I thought the sario rip thing was overused. Once was cool. Twice and I was like "again?"

Though I can't knock time travel too much...I'm kinda using it myself in my fanfic. *aheh*

I'm huge on Ancient Egypt and them traveling to that time would have been so cool! Especially meeting Erik and recognizing him, but he doesn't know who they are. One of those things.


Or to pre-colonial settlements like suggested earlier. The whole witch hunt thing would have been neat. One person sees them and tries to accuse them of being witches or whatnot.

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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #71 on: August 25, 2008, 10:09:47 PM »
I was actually thinking of writing a story where the assertive Rachel gets accused of being a witch and must esape 17th century Salem after Crayak sends her there fpr some reason.

It'd be cool if the Animorphs had met Erek King in one of his many lives in the past and when they returned, Erek remembered them due to his supercomputer brain
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What seed, what root did it grow from?
Who's doing this?
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Does our ruin benefit the earth, aid the grass to grow and the sun to shine?  Is this darkness in you, too?  Have you passed through this night?

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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #72 on: August 25, 2008, 10:53:38 PM »
It'd be cool if the Animorphs had met Erek King in one of his many lives in the past and when they returned, Erek remembered them due to his supercomputer brain
Wouldn't that cause some sort of paradox?


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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #73 on: August 25, 2008, 11:08:24 PM »
It'd be cool if the Animorphs had met Erek King in one of his many lives in the past and when they returned, Erek remembered them due to his supercomputer brain
Wouldn't that cause some sort of paradox?

Not necessarilly... Remember how Erek wasn't surprised at all to find out they were human, and even seemed to be expecting them when he saw Marco demorphing from spider? How he trusted them so easily? Maybe he HAS met them before....
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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #74 on: August 25, 2008, 11:15:37 PM »
A paradox? No. Why would it? Unless you don't believe in Stephen Hawkins' Multiverse Theory.
This great evil - where's it come from?
How'd it steal into the world?
What seed, what root did it grow from?
Who's doing this?
Who's killing us, robbing us of life and light, mocking us with the sight of what we mighta known?
Does our ruin benefit the earth, aid the grass to grow and the sun to shine?  Is this darkness in you, too?  Have you passed through this night?