pD: Fighting crime in a future time?

D: Why would an advanced race of cyborgs/computers create a killer robot..........................that speaks English with a thick Austrian accent?

p: Because they're not as advanced as you'd think. It was either that crappy voice or a speak-and-spell.

Why would they think that someone that buff would blend in with a bunch of starving, half-dead refugees?

D: But why Austrian? It could have been Spanish!

Starving refugees?

p: They only had the technology to produce a voice that spoke broken English in short words, slowly and monotone. That left them with Austrian.

The terminators were originally built to blend in with the human rebels in the future. Watch T1, the scene where a terminator gets into the shelter and the dog is barking at him. He's huge and everyone else is scrawny and eating rat soup.

D: So, English spoken in a short, slow, monotone manner is present only in the Austrian language. What about Chinese?

p: If they'd WANTED the terminator to sound Chinese they wouldn't have given it vocal chords at all and just let it make meaningless electronic beeps and clicks.

(okay, that's awful)

D: I find it difficult to fathom that an intelligence that creates lasers and can CONTROL TIME, could not come up with a better language program.

p: Obviously they had limited research points to work with. The voice-synthesizer program got slashed to provide more budget to the crappy, half-assed time machine that is incapable of sending pants.