"A'kilees, I know you aren't a linguist, but you do have me thinking about how your language works and what we're dealing with here. You and Cortez see if there is anything that can be extrapolated from the data we have to see about answering the Lieutenant's question about their society," Amila said looking at the two midshipmen. "We may be coming close to the end, but this Pandora's Box does seem to be the gift that keeps on giving."
The Saurian gave a nod of acknowledgement to the Orion officer. “I’ll get right on that” and began heading over to the station next to Cortez and Keti.
A saurian linguist. That’d be the day. A’kilees thought. Saurians were a talented people but lacked any further semantic talents. What might have befallen his forebears when they experienced first contact with humans hundreds of years ago had it not been with the assistance of the Vulcans who had accompanied them. No amount of saurian brandy would have easily calmed flared tempers over a botched diplomatic event.
Amila had brought up an interesting point though. The universal translator was able to decipher the rather complex series of clicks, pops and other noises of the saurian language as well as hundreds of other spoken languages throughout Federation space. Perhaps they could modulate the computer’s translator to isolate specific phonetic frequency patterns or integer sequences of the alien language. Finding frequent algorithmic sound patterns to differentiate and hypothesize potential word sequences would speed up translation to narrow down the lingering questions that Lieutenant Gath had brought up earlier and would be helpful to establish formal first contact communications if needed. A’kilees made it back to his previous work station across from Cortez and standing nearby Keti.
“Lieutentant” nodded his head in greetings towards the equally tall Bajoran. “Glad to have you here. Cortez, can I see what your progress so far with the language? I have some thoughts…”
== Tag Keti, Cortez ==
== GM Input: Can A’kilees differentiate various letters, words and sentence sequencing by isolating and analyzing frequent phonetics and integers using the computer’s universal translator? ==
The Saurian gave a nod of acknowledgement to the Orion officer. “I’ll get right on that” and began heading over to the station next to Cortez and Keti.
A saurian linguist. That’d be the day. A’kilees thought. Saurians were a talented people but lacked any further semantic talents. What might have befallen his forebears when they experienced first contact with humans hundreds of years ago had it not been with the assistance of the Vulcans who had accompanied them. No amount of saurian brandy would have easily calmed flared tempers over a botched diplomatic event.
Amila had brought up an interesting point though. The universal translator was able to decipher the rather complex series of clicks, pops and other noises of the saurian language as well as hundreds of other spoken languages throughout Federation space. Perhaps they could modulate the computer’s translator to isolate specific phonetic frequency patterns or integer sequences of the alien language. Finding frequent algorithmic sound patterns to differentiate and hypothesize potential word sequences would speed up translation to narrow down the lingering questions that Lieutenant Gath had brought up earlier and would be helpful to establish formal first contact communications if needed. A’kilees made it back to his previous work station across from Cortez and standing nearby Keti.
“Lieutentant” nodded his head in greetings towards the equally tall Bajoran. “Glad to have you here. Cortez, can I see what your progress so far with the language? I have some thoughts…”
== Tag Keti, Cortez ==
== GM Input: Can A’kilees differentiate various letters, words and sentence sequencing by isolating and analyzing frequent phonetics and integers using the computer’s universal translator? ==