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posted by martyb on Friday July 10 2020, @05:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the Rendevous-with-Rama dept.

Languages will change significantly on interstellar flights:

In this study, McKenzie and Punske discuss how languages evolve over time whenever communities grow isolated from one another. This would certainly be the case in the event of a long interstellar voyage and/or as a result of interplanetary colonization. Eventually, this could mean that the language of the colonists would be unintelligible to the people of Earth, should they meet up again later.

[...] To illustrate, McKenzie and Punske use examples of different language families on Earth and how new languages emerged due to distance and time. They then extrapolated how this same process would occur over the course of 10 generations or more of interstellar/interplanetary travel. As McKenzie explained in a UK press release:

"If you're on this vessel for 10 generations, new concepts will emerge, new social issues will come up, and people will create ways of talking about them, and these will become the vocabulary particular to the ship. People on Earth might never know about these words, unless there's a reason to tell them. And the further away you get, the less you're going to talk to people back home. Generations pass, and there's no one really back home to talk to. And there's not much you want to tell them, because they'll only find out years later, and then you'll hear back from them years after that."

There are always emojis...

Journal Reference:
McKenzie, A., Punske, J.. Language Development During Interstellar Travel, Acta Futura, (12), 123–132. (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3747353)


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2020, @05:45AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2020, @05:45AM (#1018974)

    Suck my biatch, you biatch! I have the biatch for you right here, biatch! SJW, you biatch! Snowflake, you biatch! Mother-loving (in a literal sense) Goddamned (if there was a god) Pink dyeing; Oh, wait, is that you, Mighty Buzzard who is now Lord of All East Oklahoma? [reuters.com] Pending Appeals by exaeta. Indian Pedophiles are always the hardest to track down, because they are so light-footed.

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2020, @10:14AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2020, @10:14AM (#1019011)

    Look, if you are going to troll for the Kremlin, you might want to aim for a bit more subtlety. Try not to be quite so obvious.

    • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2020, @01:42PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2020, @01:42PM (#1019049)

      I was just going to say... I really hope the SJW's do not develop the language used on interstellar flights or anywhere else in the universe. If they did then humankind will have no chance of survival because no one will want to screw.

      • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday July 10 2020, @03:13PM (2 children)

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 10 2020, @03:13PM (#1019100) Journal

        Can you imagine how difficult it would be to translate the constantly updated Code of Conduct?

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        People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2020, @06:23PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2020, @06:23PM (#1019177)

          I'm sure they'll get used to it after the 2nd or 3rd time they try to request consent to speak to others.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2020, @12:02PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2020, @12:02PM (#1019465)

            request consent to speak to others.

            No you may not. Full stop.