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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
Over: Maybe so, but if you plan to have any inter-species communication between them, or any conversations that the reader can understand, you'll need it. Otherwise you can only end up with mute aliens, and that's no fun, safe for a sci-fi horror thriller where mute is best.
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I can understand that, but I think there are more "realistic" ways to do that, like initially not knowing the language and then, after a learning process, we know they are talking their language but we hear/read in english, because we're reading/hearing what the listener (the human character) is understanding of the conversation, for example.
Although I think it's always much more immeresive to just imagine ways to comunicate with an alien, not knowing its language nor having them conviniently speaking english from the beggining.
Another thing about sci-fis... Why 90% of those books, when the story is centered on Earth (past or future), all events happens in the USA or has an american hero? Are aliens talibans, hating USA the most? Or they perceive the USA as world leaders, so when they asked somebody "take me to your leader", the obvious answer was "USA"?
