Wouldn’t it make more sense if cyberglyph was similar to the chinese writing system with its use of pictograms? Especially with how the decepticons spoke in the first bayverse movie I have a hard time thinking it’d be like the latin or english alphabet.

I was going to think about your ask properly after I got home, but then I completely forgot about it. I’m so sorry.

What will a mechanical race’s language sounds/looks like? I am not a linguist, so I can only guess. But Cybertronians most likely have a much wider vocal range, i would be interesting if their speaking language is tonal-based and their written language pictogram based on the word’s tonal identity.

It will make most organic species impossible to speak it, or be able to hear the whole range of their language, which serves (and/or fuels) Cybertronians’ xenophobia nature, it also make the written language very difficult for aliens to learn too.

It’s written in canon that Cybertronians can recognize people’s accent (Megatron being harassed by police for his Tarnian accent), so it’s natural to have different Cybertronian regions speaking different dialects, and I imagine they can range from mild tonal shift to basically a completely different language.  Also,
I imagine the pre-war senate would have had enforced some sort of
“standard Cybertronian”, probably the Iacon dialect, as their official language and
“proper” Cybertronian. Even though Cybertronians back then still largely spoke their home dialects outside of “official” occasions, after The Grate War, >90% of
the population was killed off, many dialects had probably died and forgotten long time
ago, the Official Cybertronian pretty much became the only language left.

Small head canon:

Cyclonus’ region was probably famous for it’s coarse and harsh sounding dialect (judging by his singling), but since no one speaks that dialect nor recognized his particular accent now, everyone made a huge fuss about Cyblonus’ singing and thought it’s a murder scene. If it’s the golden age, people would just be “Ohhh, the Upper Tetrahexian drinking song! A bar must be near by.”

Lost Light #7 thoughts:

  • The part where Magnus snapped and reveal how betrayed he felt because of Megatron is great. It made Terminus’ scheme of tricking Megatron to stay behind in the Functionist Universe even worse.
  • Even though I have become more and more weary of the whole Tailgate thing (he’s been a over-powered brat for how long? On top of it being my least favorite trope, it’s really getting too long), what he got is too much for what he has done.
  • The scene between Whirl and Cyclonus is the highlight of this issue.
  • Fangry is really nasty. But damn, I’m more upset about the fact that he killed Kaput to achieve his revenge plan.

LL#6 short thoughts:

The arc folded really fast, might be too fast to my taste. I honestly have no interest in Anode’s story arc. It felt out of place intertwined with the functionist universe to me. Maybe the functionist arc would have ended less rushed if JRo skipped Anode’s part.

I like the idea of Megatron having a second chance in the functionist universe. To go through a might-be-millions-of-years-long war AND knowing that he have do do it right this time, this itself is a form of “punishment” to Megatron. It’s just that in this way, the people of the functionist universe might have a chance to win a freedom, and only after this could Megatron have his redemption. It would be a win-win “punishment” for all.

However, I can’t believe Terminus tricked/forced Megatron to stay… that bugger is the first Decepticon. I hope Megatron at least have the chance of explaining to Rodimus and Magnus that he staying in the functionist universe is not him trying to get away with his trail. I want him to tell them that it’s not even about his redemption, but about taking responsibility and saving people when he know he is the most capable one. I just want Rodimus and Magnus to know it.

But at least Megs got Optimus? Nevertheless, who says the Optimus in the functionist universe is “good”? It would be the intimate irony if this Optimus supports funcionism and becomes Megatron’s nemesis.