Sorry to hear that man he ' s a Beautiful looking Dog . <| sep |> I don ' t see why Albert can ' t play Sunday if he says he can . He ' ll likely be wearing a club on that hand when he comes back anyways . Not sure how much he could do to re injure in a club if he can ' t grab with that hand . <| sep |> I harass those guys on Twitter a lot . They ' re great . <| sep |> No , no , you misunderstand . They are real bum covers , but they are owned by Fake Al . The real Al keeps his bum covers to himself . <| sep |> No , the Greybeards are monks , living alone on top of a big ass mountain with noone to speak to , and they only ever use their voice to Shout . There might be another reason , but we , the players might not know that . Such as in the real world , you don ' t know how everything works , but it is still believed to be a consistent system . But we are mixing two issues here Distinguishing draconic and shouting , and losing the ability to speak after shouting too much . Those are two separate things . Dragons can shout , speak english , and speak draconic . Dragonborn can shout , can ' t speak draconic , but can talk english . Angneir can speak english , draconic , and shout . Other greybeards can shout , but cant speak english , and probably cant speak draconic either . Whether the initiation was simple talk in the dragon language or shouting is up to debate . The rite did not consist of 3 words like Shouts do , but there are 4 or 7 word shouts , like the one Miraak uses , so perhaps longer phrases can be used as shouts as well , And the rite was clearly of magical nature . But the other Greybeards only say Dragonborn when you randomly talk to them if I recall , not Dovahkiin , and the ground still shakes . So chances are , they can ' t speak to you in english or the language used by mortal men which is a different thing from not being able to speak dragon language , because you end up shouting instead .