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Nu Speling
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An easy way to show the audience that This Is The Future is for on-screen writing to be spelled differently, implying that official spelling rules have changed. Usually the intended implication is that the spelling has been reformed to deal with difficult words, but since the set designers usually aren't orthographic reform specialists, nor have much time to ponder subtleties, it can end up looking like the sign writers just couldn't spell very well. Another potential problem is the Eternal English issue — if your story is set three thousand years in the future, one might expect that the language had changed more than just in a few of the spellings. This trope is where spelling reform is used as a way of showing that the story is set in a different time. It doesn't cover Real Life attempts to reform the language, or in-story attempts to reform the language except where they've become successful and the new spelling is ubiquitous. It is also not to be confused with Funetik Aksent. |
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The Simpsons: Don Hertzfeldt's Couch Gag, which shows the terrifying "Sampsans" of the year 10,535, showcases a few new months (Aprall, Oktobar, Marchrüary — no Smarch, though), a new decimal calendar system, and "a"-heavy phrases like "outernet markat," "now availabal," and "epasode numbar." | |
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The entirety of the novel Riddley Walker is written in this style, though in this case it's because of a lack of a formal education system in a post nuclear-war England. | |
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Just about every other word that isn't an obscenity is spelled or pronounced wrong in Idiocracy to demonstrate how much English has deteriorated (which is described in-universe as a mix of ebonics, valley girl, and assorted grunts and moans). Either that, or it's used incorrectly ("particular individual" seems to be the go-to term for "suspect" by the police, regardless of how it fits grammatically in a sentence) or replaced with something similar sounding — case in point, the Extreme Court. Other than that, the movie plays Eternal English relatively straight. | |
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The Sonmi-451 section of Cloud Atlas is set in a time when linguistic shift has merged with Future Slang to make things nearly incomprehensible. To name just one example, the first "e" gets dropped from the word "expect". | |
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Parodied in "Tomorrow Town" by Kim Newman, set in a futurist commune where all writing must conform to a new "rational" spelling system that the founder predicts will be ubiquitous by the end of the century. Really (according to his co-founder), he's just always had dreadful spelling and rather than learn to spell properly he chose to foist his spelling on everybody else. | |
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In the short story Enoch Soames Max Beerbohm recounts how a man sells his soul to the devil in order to see what has become of his work one hundred years after his death. He is allowed to find his name in a literary catalogue written entirely in the phonetic spelling of the future — 1997. | |
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The early installments of Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire are bereft of the infamous 'ough': 'through' is spelt 'thru', 'though' is 'tho', 'thought' is 'thot', and so on. This might be a Phil Foglio idiosyncrasy rather than a world-building detail, though, because it also happens in other Foglio works of the period, not all of which are set in the future. | |
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In the Horseclans series, dialogue is rendered in modern English, but personal and place names use this (e.g. Harzburk, originally Harrisburg) | |
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In Dinner at Deviant's Palace, set After the End, writing has gone in for simplified and phonetic spellings; it's mentioned that although people still speak English, even people who are considered literate find old-time writing pretty much incomprehensible, or at least too much effort to bother with, because of all the strange spellings and superfluous letters. | |
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Appears briefly in Zardoz when Zed looks at a sort of holographic shopping list that mentions "applz," "solt," and "lethur." Oddly enough, the word "soap" retains its old spelling. | |
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In Planetfall, signs and labels on the alien planet use this kind of spelling, such as a raygun labelled "Portabul Laazur". | |
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In an episode of Stargate Universe, the crew visits a planet colonized and subsequently abandoned by a civilisation that was started a thousand years ago by 21st Century Earthlings who traveled back in time. Some shop signs and a newspaper reveal slight variations in spelling. | |
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The Doctor Who story "The Invisible Enemy", set in the 51st century, features "Imurjinsee Egsit" signs among other examples of variant spelling. | |
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In the Safehold novels, most personal names have gone through this after nine hundred years of lingual shift. Not an unrealistic assumption. | |
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In A Sound of Thunder, after one of the characters accidentally kills a butterfly in the far past, it changes the present in several ways, including altering how things are spelled (as in the Enoch Soames example, the altered spelling is a lot like Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe). | |
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