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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8998670" data-attributes="member: 177">Yeah, but Hela was locked away in an extra-dimensional prison for apparently thousands of years, but came out speaking perfect English.  Heck, while on Asgard, speaking only to Asgardians, they speak English.  And the Frost Giants speak English.  The Nova Corps speaks English.  Howard the Duck speaks English. Drax speaks English... badly.The MCU must play fast and loose with language because most of what is said needs to be understandable to the viewers.  Don't take that as canonically meaningful, or you'll run into logic twisted in knots.I'm fine with there being a generic superpower "speaks major languages of the planet they are on", but that means that the name they give is still a translation, not the Asgardian word for it.Or, one sensible take is that what we watch is a dramatic representation, not the absolute literal truth of events, and that language is translated.  The nearest English equivalents are "aether" and "tesseract".I mean, if you want to take it that a British mathematician went on holiday to Norway to that shrine, read Norse runes on the wall, and decided to call his mathematical construction that in 1888, that's your headcanon and you are welcome to it.</blockquote>