Jaal Ama Darav (Official Thread)

If the Angarans use their equivalent of J, that would require them to have gone through exactly the same process as the Latin alphabet did in order for that to be the case, which is a little too hard to believe.  And even if that was the case, I'd have to ask why an English based translator (and it's likely being done from our side, not like Chinese, who are themselves responsible for Pinyin) use the letter J to stand for the sound Y when we already have a dedicated letter for that?  Especially when you consider we normally hear and not see languages first before we transcribe them.  We in English only use J to stand for Ys in Slavic and Germanic words because they were already using that letter in Latin for that sound.

For example, look at how we transcribe Russian.  We don't use the letter J to mean Y, even though we leave the Polish and Czech J alone.  Юрий is Yuri, not Juri.

At least I'm not the only one who's extremely thirsty for Jaal...

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Welcome fellow Jaal fan 

Yeah I was afraid that would happen 

I think you're taking this faaaaar too seriously. It's a J because Bioware chose that name. People have already said that it means something in a particular language so why not just take it as it is?

They're not wrong though lol I find linguistics fascinating, too. One would hope a sci-fi video game series would put serious thought into the languages (including the naming systems) of the species they've created.

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The incomporable James Dean, my favorite actor (and personal hero   )

Have they actually created a language for them though? I imagine we'll hear words from their language and maybe phrases like with the Quarians and their Bosh'tets but I don't think really they've fleshed out a language. (Except Qunlat)

I found it really funny in the trilogy that when Thane says siha Shep is like "my translator is glitching". But at keelah se'lai no one bats an eye. 

You've just demonstrated the complexity of using Roman script for rendering foreign languages (even lettered). It is all about conventions. If I am told that Angaran convention calls for Jaal to be read with the first "j" as in Jaheira, I'll do that. We'll probably see his transcribed name in the codex. In the past Bio's voice actors did pronounce some of the "fantasy" names in different fashions, depending on which actor read the script. It even landed a bit of aucenticity to it, and I don't mind it.

Obviously, I would have loved it if we saw a lot more bacroom stuff created for Andromeda races than makes it into codecies, but I understand why not.

I do love it, when BioWare stylizes their speech like with Voss.

Of course it is, how could I not realise?!

Artemis; not too young, just blind!

The more I look at Jaal the more I can see the attraction. He's definitely attractive and I'm curious about his voice and character.

Everyone who knows me from old bsn will know that I want everyone to get the love interest they want so I'm hoping if he is an LI (which seems likely unless it was confirmed), I hope he is bi!