Can Gnar be understood by other Yordles?

masIow·4/10/2019, 9:58:48 AM·6 votes·8,603 views

I am aware that Gnar has his own native language, but surely other older Yordles (not in game) would have passed down similar speech / languages to Yordles we know of now, e.g. Heimerdinger or Lulu. Heimerdinger in particular already expresses his interest in Gnar due to evolutionary / science reasons, but would it not be more efficient to learn the language Gnar speaks in order to make more sense of how Gnar came to be or where his family went?

I only ask this as Gnar is the only non-"english" speaking Yordle thus far in the Yordle champion line, and am interested in whether or not his language will ever be expanded upon.

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EdgeLady4/10/2019, 2:21:07 PM4 votes

I would imagine Heimerdinger would be fascinated to learn about him and his grunt speech. He might make a couple mistakes in translation though, or intentional errors. Come to think of it, it would be so funny to see those two interact...

UnHeardGh0st4/10/2019, 8:23:18 PM2 votes

If we are thinking about a technically stand point, or whatever. I would feel like over time, maybe a few years at best. Gnar will slowly understand English, as he can sound it out, somewhat in his taunts. There is of course the idea of putting everything together as we all know Gnar has a "slight" temper, so this may hinder him.

I would think Heimerdinger and Lulu do their best to help him understand, either magic or teaching him as if he is well...a child. From there he may be able to sound out words, and then form sentences into what he may fully or at least adapt English when he is an teenager or adult. Whatever age that is for yordles.

SuicidePlank4/10/2019, 10:02:20 AM1 votes

Isn't he the equivalent of a caveman? They had their grunts and stuff, but that's about it, since they couldn't write and only paint funny pictures, it would be quite hard to understand what their grunts mean. So I don't doubt that someone could learn a living cavemans language (or Gnars) but it would be rather difficult.

The Iceborn4/10/2019, 10:50:10 AM1 votes

Well not really... Gnar is thousands of years old(8k?) and the problem with him is that he was always a very very primitive yordle in the way he speaks and thinks. Back then he did not communicate in the way todays yordles do. And I guess we will get a yordle update soon but one thing to note is that time also passes differently in bandle city. So there may be a very minor chance that someone in bandle city knows his language but then again very slim chances since Gnar probably did evolve differently because he was in freljord and not bandle city. Another reason why yordles would not understand gnar is because gnar himself did not develop his speech over time since he was frozen literally. He never got a chance to evolve and better his speech so most yordles would just find him weird.

The Iceborn4/10/2019, 12:30:00 PM1 votes

Altough Gnar is a young primitive yordle I do not think that his life expectancy is great enough for him to truly evolve and develop his speech... He really is like a cave man. Well I think Gnar is doomed to be lonely since nobody can understand him (except Willump maybe?) since his family is dead probably and no ancient yordles are left.

The Iceborn12/27/2019, 6:22:38 PM1 votes

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