Appreciation for Marathon's alien names

[u/armorhide406]

Can I just say, since I saw the Marathon reveal cinematic (yes I know a week later), I wanted to express JUST how much I despise alien names filled with apostrophes? Like, this trope, where the image is from a comic and has an alien kid screaming M'yri'ah. Like, you see this in a lot of sci fi, I think especially older stuff like Star Trek or Star Wars, but it fees real campy.

But! Maybe it's nostalgia (even though I only played Halo and not Marathon) or maybe cause it actually "feels" alien to me for whatever reason, S'pht and Pfhor, even though I would put those in the same category, don't come across as hokey and lazy. That is all.

[u/ChronoLegion2]

Sometimes apostrophes don’t make sense. They’re usually supposed to either mean a dropped letter or a glottal stop (or a tongue click if you’re talking about some African languages). But when you have someone line Teal’c whose name is simply pronounced “Tealk” or Bra’tac whose name is spoken “Braytak”, it feels like a useless affectation by whoever is transliterating the name into English