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: Such Human arrogance, Gravemind- they should burn your mongrel hide!
I didn't take his comment in that way, for the record. It's been known that humans (ONI in particular) were responsible for naming Covenant materiel from the start. There are several references to ONI naming the Covenant fighters "Seraphs" and we can assume they also named Banshees, Wraiths, Ghosts, etc.
They also came up with the naming scheme which mostly corresponds to the year of first encounter: Types such as T-25, T-47, T-52 for Covenant vehicle/weapons/equipment discoveries in 2525, 2547, and 2552, respectively. A few exceptions to this scheme exist like the bladed weapons and grenades, probably named for first year of discovery on the war. So T-1 Plasma Grenades were probably first cataloged in the first year of the Human-Covenant War but were never redesignated as T-25.
Humans call the Covenant's tuning-fork-shaped dropship a Spirit-class, yet the Covenant refer to it as the DX-class.
What ONI calls the ORS-class cruiser, the Covenant referred to as the Reverence-class.