Clark is Kryptonian but he can't translate it...

[clarksmuse]

Originally posted by ClLaLeChFAN01
did clark forget kryptonian since he doesnt practice it a lot or something, boy oh boy. How is Chole able to figure this one out?

I don't think Chloe figured out what the symbols meant. She was just able to figure out the pattern among the multitude of papers Lionel wrote... wait, that's really crazy! Clark was able to read the symbols, but only after Chloe "dummed" it down for him?? *wondering about the continuity*

Maybe Clark did forget some of it because he wasn't practicing his Kryptonian grammar like a good little alien...

[F-Stop Blues]

Atleast Chloe didnt break the code herself. She just put it through a computer for the BDA to read.

[Smallville2322]

If you looked at the pictures it was random placement. So Chloe found three that appeared the most and made Zod is coming. Thats why Clark didnt realize at first

[mttmtlnd]

Originally posted by opera_ghost
don't like it anymore than anyone else... however, I do understand it.

the same symbols were sketched randomly all over spare bits of paper.... not necessarily was it ever linked together... nor would he realize that it was the same 3 symbols.

plus, with all of that text... there may be more there... chloe just brought to his attention the most repeating pattern... (Ala the early translations prior to the discovery of the real life rosetta stone.)

So, lighten up....

amen to this...why's everyone getting so bent outta shape?

[Ebert & Roeper]

exactly. If I wrote this on a sheet of paper:


i o p h uir w dk ewso sl w pw(which is not an anagram or anything, so don't spend to long trying to decrypt it)

You might need someone to unjumble the letters, and maybe see which letters appeared most often on the hundreds of pages. then you could narrow down the possible words. Here, the one word was all it needed to be narrowed down to.

[Nospam]

Originally posted by godsmack23
well, technically Chloe didnt know what it meant.. she just said that the same thing was repeated 32 times

I rewound and watched that scene again. You're right, Chloe didn't know what it meant. Still, Clark looked pretty dumb.

[AnimeJoe]

I dunno...that D looked like an O. Clark might have mis-read and said that the weapon is at the zoo.

[Timester]

Originally posted by Ebert & Roeper
i o p h uir w dk ewso sl w pw(which is not an anagram or anything, so don't spend to long trying to decrypt it)

Woi?

The problem here is Clark is supposed to able to decypher without any help. He is a genius at mathematics (or did AlMiles also forgot that?).

[watcher4]

Originally posted by mttmtlnd
amen to this...why's everyone getting so bent outta shape?

Agreed!!

[Ebert & Roeper]

Right, but to decypher would mean looking at all of the sheets, and I know, I know, he could do it super-fast, but he never chooses doing things at superspeed over normal speed unless he has to. in this case, he had Chloe do the work on the symbols, while he fried bigger fish.

I'm just playing devil's advocate.

[EricN68]

I agree that it wasn't the language itself, it was the code, that kept him from understanding or seeing at first. A jumble of letters isn't a language even if he recognized individual letters. So to me, it's a non-issue.

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[wildcat]

But I thought Clark was "downloaded" with the information and ability to read Kryptonian in season 2. I vaguely remember him being suspended in air with light from the cave shooting through him. That was also how lionel and that other mousy looking dude (can't remember his name) were given the ability to read kryptonian. Correct if I'm wrong though.

It really bugged me that Clark suddenly couldn't read it.

[i love u tom]

i think its cuz the symbols were too advanced even for him. but then chloe helped him with this pattern deciphering (cuz u know without chloe he would forget to put on his little time almost nonexistent thinking cap every morning) and tehn he knew cuz it was easier to understand.

[opera_ghost]

the one thing I do think some people miss... including me... is that the kryptonian language doesn't resemble the english alphabet... or any alphabet with less than 50 characters...

it's more like the chinese or japanese alphabet in which the characters themselves are the words....

so he may have seen the symbol for the third person possessive verb for to come, to travel, to journey... however you wish to describe it.... but never caught the symbol for Zod on any of the picutres...

plus there may have been other things there like... "I miss my mommy... I wish I'd never killed her" and "Lex is an idiot."... but those were just musings of lionel trying to break through....

And another thing is, I don't completely trust Clark's ability to read the language anyway.... given that whole... "They are a flawed race son... rule them with strength." debacle of a couple years ago.