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  • Star Trek: Picard. Should language have evolved?

    From RichA@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 23 23:37:03 2022
    What if they look at how language has evolved since the say the 1700s when industrialization began? Then try to extrapolate how language might evolve over the next 500 years. Use that in a scifi.

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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to rander3128@gmail.com on Sun Apr 24 17:54:09 2022
    In article <3ec5fb9a-b914-4189-8045-0674d9c35a39n@googlegroups.com>,
    RichA <rander3128@gmail.com> wrote:
    What if they look at how language has evolved since the say the 1700s
    when industrialization began? Then try to extrapolate how language
    might evolve over the next 500 years. Use that in a scifi.

    It's been done several times. The problem is that your audience has
    to be able to understand things if the language itself isn't the point.

    A decent handwave is that things change less since we have recordings
    and a mass market in books. (Certainly regional accents are now
    less pronounced).
    --
    columbiaclosings.com
    What's not in Columbia anymore..

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  • From Jim Bozley@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 28 09:34:35 2022
    On Sunday, 24 April 2022 at 13:54:12 UTC-4, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
    In article <3ec5fb9a-b914-4189...@googlegroups.com>,
    RichA <rande...@gmail.com> wrote:
    What if they look at how language has evolved since the say the 1700s
    when industrialization began? Then try to extrapolate how language
    might evolve over the next 500 years. Use that in a scifi.

    It's been done several times. The problem is that your audience has
    to be able to understand things if the language itself isn't the point.

    A decent handwave is that things change less since we have recordings
    and a mass market in books.

    Or that they indeed are speaking a future dialect but it is presented in contemporary vernacular similar to how foreign (and alien!) languages are often presented as English in TV & movies.

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  • From RichA@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 29 01:02:20 2022
    On Sunday, 24 April 2022 at 13:54:12 UTC-4, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
    In article <3ec5fb9a-b914-4189...@googlegroups.com>,
    RichA <rande...@gmail.com> wrote:
    What if they look at how language has evolved since the say the 1700s
    when industrialization began? Then try to extrapolate how language
    might evolve over the next 500 years. Use that in a scifi.

    It's been done several times. The problem is that your audience has
    to be able to understand things if the language itself isn't the point.

    A decent handwave is that things change less since we have recordings
    and a mass market in books. (Certainly regional accents are now
    less pronounced).


    Anthropomorphizing every alien is bad enough. F---- the average audience member and their narrow "comfort zone."

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