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There are a whole lot of science-related inaccuracies in fiction, with some fields of knowledge bearing the brunt worse than others. In the case of linguistics, the vast majority of people have no idea it exists, never mind the basics. Obviously, this includes writers. Indeed, the prevalence of this trope (and its relative lack of being noticed) can be attributed to this fact — most people recognize that when dealing with questions of physics, biology, chemistry, etc., they need to ask an expert, whereas with linguistics, many people don't even realize that there are experts to be asked. Many language/linguistics tropes are attributable to this, and are split up here into errors in academic linguistics, translation errors, and errors in usage. |
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In one of Rihannsu: The Romulan Way's exposition chapters, Terise Haleakala-LoBrutto relates how the proto-Romulans constructed their own language to distinguish themselves from the Vulcans by going back to Old High Vulcan and "aging" it in a different direction, comparing it to the relationship between Latin and Basque. Basque is the one widely spoken southwestern European language this is completely wrong about: rather than being a Romance language like Spanish or French, Basque is famously a linguistic isolate with no connection to any other currently known language. | |
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Into The Veesha-verse: "My Treasure" has several examples. Masha says that "Kannst du die Tür bitte schließen?" is a polite way to "ask someone to close the door." In German, there are two ways of addressing a person, du and Sie. You would only use du with children or people close to you and would use Sie for either people you don't know or people you are giving respect to.example You would use du with your friends, and Sie with your doctor or a stranger off the street. Masha is correct if they are only talking about people you know, but it isn't if you are talking to someone you don't (or your boss). Vee says that du is the way to address someone directly in German, ignoring the existence of Sie. Though Sie can be used as an equivalent to a plural they, it wouldn't be capitalized in that context. This could be justified, because Vee is still learning the language. |
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In the Futurama episode "A Clone of My Own," a brief gag has Professor Farnsworth showing his new clone Cubert his universal translator... which, so far, can only translate into an "incomprehensible, dead language" that turns out to be French. A dead language has no native speakers, but is still knownexamples for illustration, Latin and Sanskrit are examples of dead languages. An extinct language (which French would be in this scenario) would be the proper terminology. | |
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In The Heroes of Olympus: The House of Hades, Piper suggests (and the others generally accept) that when the prophecy says "the world must fall", the "world" means the earth, and therefore in Greek means Gaea. Except the Greek word for "world" isn't Gaea (Γαῖα) or even the generic word for earth, ge (γῆ). The most common translation of "world" to Greek would be kosmos (κόσμος), which isn't a synonym for "earth"/"Gaea". | |
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