Quote from: Master on Jan 26, 2017, 07:00:19 PM
Predators have two advantages which make their understanding of human language more plausible. They are coming here for very long time and they are watching us in natural environment, which gives context to the sounds we are making.
That makes a lot of sense.
We display some of this when we observe and interpret animal behaviour as displaying a certain mood.
"Dogs wag tail when happy," "cats wag tail when angry," "bearded dragons bob head when warning you to stay away from them," etc.
Predators would have a similar understanding of us. They won't speak our languages fluently, but they'd have run across certain words like "f**k" to know that we use it quite frequently in some parts of the world hence why they choose certain phrases at the most opportune moments. XD
And because we're sapient with a language of our own, they may actually have deciphered some meanings by observing how we react and respond to the words.
But our languages and theirs (I think they have multiple as well) would be as similar as the language of dolphins to ours which is to say, very alien.