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Originally Posted by HarryT
One of my pet peeves - in David Webber's "Honor Harrington" series, there's a group of people who speak German (I forget their name off-hand). The German is horribly "wrong".
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It's how many years in the future? Languages change over time, despite the best efforts of folks like the French Academy to freeze them. Why do you assume the dialect of German these folks speak will resemble the current form? Or do you feel the errors are simply so fundamental that German wouldn't mutate in that direction, even if it is centuries from now?
(BTW: It's "Weber" with one b.)
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Dennis