This is a real thing that happens, Squadmate #3 sits on the stairs and looks sad while Tali and Shepard go to the trial.
We have totally neglected the quarian language. Most of it translates thanks to the universal translator, but two notable exceptions are "keelah se'lai" and "bosh'tet." I'd suspect it's because neither expression totally translates over very well. Keelah se'lai can be a greeting, like they use in the trial, or sometimes you'll hear it as a salute. It can be used to wish someone well (as in "thank you, and keelah se'lai"). Sometimes it's used as an expression of excitement, like, "Oh, keelah!"
Bosh'tet is a swear word, but it doesn't directly translate to any of our swear words. Like, you can be a bosh'tet, just like you can be an ass, but you can't have hot diarrhea coming out of your bosh'tet. You can't tell someone to bosh'tet off, but you can use it at the beginning of an expression. ("Bosh'tet, I thought he'd never quit!")
It doesn't compound either. You can be an assclown, a fuckwit or a shitstain, but you can't be a bosh'tetclown, a bosh'tetwit or a bosh'tetstain.
And there is your nerd meditation for the day. The admiral board comes up again in ME3, so we'd better learn our quarian admirals now. We met Raan last time, she's Tali's aunt.
Are you kidding? There's only one reason in the entire universe as to why the admirals should let Shepard take a crack at it.
Before we all go traipsing off to the Alerai, we can visit various quarians out and about. Hey, what about Veetor and Kal'Reegar?
That's good news.
NEXT TIME: The most important paragon interrupt in the game.
Love it! But I'm sad that you miss out how Han'Gerrel sort of comes across as the cool, on-your-side admiral in ME2 only to be the guy you want to (and can, as renegade!) kick in the quad repeatedly in ME3. Koris, on the other hand, comes across as a complete lameface unless you actually hear him out and realise why he dislikes having 1) a human represent Tali and 2) Tali get away with whatever it is her daddy did on the Alerei, and then eventually becomes outright awesome. I think it's a really impressive bit of characterisation for some relatively minor characters! So basically just want to record the nuance in case MSpixel really does become the only galactic record of Mass Effect in however many thousand years time ;)
ReplyDeleteMy husband and I were just laughing about the sad 3rd squadmate thing a few days ago. :D
ReplyDelete