Then close your eyes and use your imagination. 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' is a horrible experience of unbearable length If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Perhaps there's a well-defined made-up language behind this text, but if so, I haven't been able to learn anything about it. And the text somehow encodes 'information on the location of a new energon signal', which the evil transformers want to dissect Sam's brain to find. It seems that this ancient Cybertronian text is the movie's MacGuffin - 'the language Sam sees is of the Dynasty of Primes, the original seven Transformers, who powered the AllSpark like a battery by destroying suns', according to Wikipedia. Sam in turn carves some of this text in the turf, as shown here: Whilst packing, he finds another shard of the AllSpark which fills his mind with ancient Cybertronian text.' According to the Wikipedia entry's plot description, 'Sam Witwicky heads off to college in an attempt to live a normal life. This geographical accident is not the only linguistic connection. The trailer suggests that I can expect to get cinematically blown to CGI bits along with pretty much every everything else in the movie. In this screenshot from the trailer, the (added by me) red ellipse marks my dining room window, next to which I generally sit while blogging at breakfast. Some parts of the movie were shot here at Penn - including one scene in the Quad, where I live: (Warning: clicking on that link will cause Linkin Park to start playing the chorus of New Divide through your computer's sound system, which may not be what you want…) release of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

Cybertronian language translator