#crowley and aziraphale speaking english (a human language) even when theyre alone because they’re on their own side

[d1sheclectic]

the fact that crowley and aziraphale have been speaking in modern day english since the garden of eden will never not be interesting to me. you could argue that they’re communicating in a tongue only comprehensible to celestial (?) beings which is thus being converted into english for the sake of simplicity (because we’re watching the show), yet there are a myriad of instances in which common english idioms, expressions, and euphemisms would have been lost in translation if they were not, in fact, just speaking english. The earliest recorded use of english i said to have been around the 5th to 7th century A.D, but even then, the language hadn’t yet developed into the language we know today. It makes you wonder, doesn’t it?

As I was doing research concerning exactly what it is we know about linguistics in good omens, I came across an old ask on Neil Gaiman’s account which answers several of my questions, but incites just as many.

It makes most sense as both of these possibilities. This confirms 2 things:

1) Lead Balloons were somehow apart of God’s ineffable plan???

2) There’s a language spoken by angels and demons, and we are most probably only hearing a translation.

The amount of possibilities this opens up is insane. It makes you wonder what nuances are being lost in translation. It makes you wonder whether they have their own slangs and expressions both in the up and in the down. It makes you wonder whether there are different dialects of this supposed language.

But it’s impossible that Crowley and Aziraphale are never speaking english. And if they by some slim possibility really aren’t, does that mean that there are cuss words in both heaven and hell which have equivalencies to the ones we have?

It’s funny to think about when Aziraphale and Crowley may have transitioned from speaking in their “native” languages to just plain old english, since there is no doubt in my mind they were doing so in the later millenias. Crowley was probably so conflicted as to how to speak to Jim in season 2. Funny to think about whether he’d often fumble with his languages because the situation was just so darn confusing. Does all of heaven and hell eventually just completely forget about the language they used to speak? What ae the logistics here?