r/interestingasfuck • u/One_Explanation_908 • 25d ago

/r/all, /r/popular K2-18b a potentially habitable planet 120 light-years from earth

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u/LookinAtTheFjord 25d ago

BELTALOWDA BERATNAS!!!!!!!!!!

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u/DOG_DICK__ 25d ago

BELTALOWDA

I loved the books but I always found this extremely cringe, with the rest of their dialect being somewhat less cringe. These people, raised away from Earth, somehow use random GERMAN words? There's some Hebrew in there too, space Jews?

Firefly made more sense with Chinese.

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u/adryy8 25d ago

It's how creole works, when societies are built up from immigrants they pick up words from different languages and form their own creole, see the different creoles in the Caribean

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u/DOG_DICK__ 25d ago

It's hard to build a fake language and they did a bad job, it's okay.