Would there always be markers (or some kind of clue) on cells that had ...
Apr 28, 2025 · It's pretty hard to prove that a piece of text was not originally composed in English but rather it was translated from some other language... For example, consider the sentence "the heart …
internal consistency - How far back in time would English be ...
117 As we all know, language in England has changed massively over the centuries. How far back would someone be able to travel in time and still have a basic understanding of what most people …
Would it be reasonable to assume writing systems would change ...
Feb 8, 2025 · 10 There is real evidence today of writing in English changing to include the emoji set. Unicode also opens the door to faster adoption of foreign language words into English. And then …
How can I explain English existing in a fantasy world?
Jan 20, 2017 · My hero travels from our world to a fantasy world where people speak English. While there are other nations that speak non-English languages, the particular land she arrives in does. …
language - Are there techniques for creating alien or foreign sounding ...
Nov 3, 2014 · It should be assumed I do not have in mind what any particular culture’s language sounds like. What I would like is a technique for developing consistent-sounding, alien-sounding (or foreign …
language - Pros and cons of introducing modified Hangul (Korean ...
Aug 21, 2025 · The goals are be easy to learn, less cognitive load and resistance, regular and logical (including spellings) and universally implementable for whatever language the locals speak. Other …
time - How much would a language change over 500 years completely …
Dec 18, 2019 · In my own language, I can read 500 years old Romanian texts with little difficulty as regards the grammar and the structure of the language, but the vocabulary has changed so much in …
How long does it take for languages to diverge?
Jul 22, 2017 · The type of written record the language uses (or doesn't use) is important too. Literary Chinese is incredibly long-lived in that texts from the very distant past are slightly intelligible to …
What change in history would cause the Dutch to speak German?
The only way to prevent the divergence between the two modern languages would be to force the common living between the populations and preventing the foreign influxes that moved Dutch away …
society - How should a country introduce a constructed language as …
The government of a former colony, which recently gained its independence, decided to replace local dialects with a constructed language as the official language. The new language doesn't have any …