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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."
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Journal Reference:
McKenzie, A., Punske, J.. Language Development During Interstellar Travel, Acta Futura, (12), 123–132. (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3747353)
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday July 10 2020, @03:55PM (3 children)
I get to hotel. I notice there are only 3 coat hangars in closet.
Tired and frustrated (my language changes) I call the front desk.
"I'm calling to complain that there are 3 hookers in my closet!"
"What?!?"
"I have more clothes than can fit on 3 hookers."
"Sir, I don't understand . . ."
"You heard me! There are only 3 hookers in my closet when I got to my room. I demand that you immediately send a dozen more hookers to my room at once!"
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2020, @04:58PM
One of my dates in SoCal was a southern bell. One day at 7/11 the teen cashier asked her if she wanted a bag. She said she needed a poke.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday July 10 2020, @06:33PM
Since you said you wanted more hookers [wikipedia.org] in your room, did they send the plumber to fix the room flooding? :-)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2020, @03:49PM
Shoddy establishment probably didn't leave any sodas in the fridge either.
"I need hookers and coke. HOOKERS AND COKE. Damnit!"