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And they love claiming their cultural groups have sole ownership of certain words - just like you do!

 

*She conspicuously keeps her hands behind her back, leaning in to murmur.*

Is Iridium okay?

 

Well I'm not ten million years old.
Don't personally know of anyone that old, but presumably there must be. I'm just a little under seven million.

 

To be perfectly fair, etymology that far back is rather lost. Thanks to the wars, and our species' chronic inability to stay on one planet, mainly. Origin of "spark" unknown, and false cognates exist anyways. "Having the word first"... does not matter? The word can mean more than one thing? Does, even in Neocybex, see: spark (organ), spark (energy flare from optics), spark (soul), spark (religious object)...

Yes? Probably? Was present at last whole-ship briefing, anyway. Haven't... er. Had the time to contact her. Or resources to offer in exchange for wanted information.

 

It was a joke.
Do they not do those where you are from?

 

Fok ja clenk booze!

Deed hyu effer try dot schtuff dot snappy hed dot vun time? Hy tought andrej vas goink to ektually catch fire.

 

Where I'm from, jokes are actually funny.

 

Arguably, the translation of 'spark' into other languages doesn't mean that we had it first. BBC just uses the word 'heart' for everything, and would probably call our sparks that despite being very clearly wrong about everything forever.

Did humans even have a language ten million years ago? I'm pretty sure they didn't. Did they even have a planet?

 

Okay Nerd. Though I suppose it's your job to know such things just as it's my job to build large weapons of mass distruction.

 

-"subtly" elbowing mirrors-- hooooooo, ein older men, goot huntink!

 

Oh, you don't want to get tangled with the BBC.

 

Does she seem happy? Did she seem sick? Is she drinking good energon?

 

...Thanks. I appreciate the warning.

 

Ho yez! Hyu must haf learned plenty ov tings een seffen meeleeon yearz! -grins at Nichrome in a blatantly suggestive fashion- Hyu iz vant to share?

 

Spoiler: time

 

Pretty sure it doesn't make you more endearing or charming to dump your frustration over Hot Stuff over there on other unsuspecting mechs. Since you were wondering earlier why you don't have friends.

 

You don't wanna get Doctor Who cancelled, after all.

 

You okay?

 

No thank you I am strictly attracted to other mechanoids. If you truly need to please return your attentions to Flux who has made it plenty clear he was willing to attempt to spike an organic.

 

I assume from context and tone that Backdraft is referring to the Black Box Consortia