Quote Originally Posted by Kozh View Post
Leave it to you to twist it into emet's fault. Like Lurina said, if he who possess the echo couldn't understand what the sundered said, then it means the sundered doesn't have language to translate to. The echo wouldn't stop working just because we speak to what we deemed as lesser being.
Per the Eorzea Encyclopdia:
For those blessed with the power to transcend words, language no longer poses a barrier to intercultural communication. Voiced utterances fade and are replaced by an internal understanding of another's intentions.
Either Emet-Selch didn’t care enough, or the writers are changing the lore again. Both are probably true.

We’re able to communicate with a “smarter than average” troll that read a book but is still grunting and grrr-ing so I find it hard to believe the the newly sundered Ancients came out less evolved than a troll who discovered “language” on his own and taught himself to read. We can also understand that specific troll, but not other trolls, but that specific troll can talk to other trolls, implying that they have their own language the Echo doesn’t work on.

There’s also the Mandragora, who have their own language and culture that’s indecipherable to both us and the Ancients.

But previously the Echo was stated to connect souls together so that one may understand the other. If one with the Echo is unable to make a connection with someone else, they won’t understand.