diff --git a/code/modules/mob/living/silicon/silicon.dm b/code/modules/mob/living/silicon/silicon.dm
index 0d88e0c96ff..602be39e879 100644
--- a/code/modules/mob/living/silicon/silicon.dm
+++ b/code/modules/mob/living/silicon/silicon.dm
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@
 /mob/living/silicon/New()
 	silicon_mob_list |= src
 	..()
-	add_language("Galactic Common")
+	add_language(LANGUAGE_GALCOM)
+	set_default_language(all_languages[LANGUAGE_GALCOM])
 	init_id()
 	init_subsystems()
 
diff --git a/code/modules/mob/living/voice/voice.dm b/code/modules/mob/living/voice/voice.dm
index 3bc7929eacb..68ac2da7584 100644
--- a/code/modules/mob/living/voice/voice.dm
+++ b/code/modules/mob/living/voice/voice.dm
@@ -8,11 +8,8 @@
 	emote_type = 2 //This lets them emote through containers.  The communicator has a image feed of the person calling them so...
 
 /mob/living/voice/New(loc)
-	add_language("Galactic Common")
-	for(var/datum/language/L in languages) //This is needed to get around some saycode problems.
-		if(L.name == "Galactic Common")
-			set_default_language(L)
-			break
+	add_language(LANGUAGE_GALCOM)
+	set_default_language(all_languages[LANGUAGE_GALCOM])
 
 	if(istype(loc, /obj/item/device/communicator))
 		comm = loc