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Originally Posted by kennyc
And what about English as the Universal language....
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That isn't all that overwhelmingly common anymore:
Quite a few books from the 60's and 70's possited Esperanto as the universal language.
Earlier, in the 40's and 50's, L. Sprague DeCamp had brazilian portugese.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viagens_Interplanetarias
Heinlein had an english/russian/chinese patois as the lingua franca in THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS.
Pournelle's Co-Dominion has English/russian.
Asimov explicitly made it clear (in PEBBLE IN THE SKY) that his Empire's Galactic was *not* english.
Quite a few modern stories assume spanish, chinese, or japanese roots to the universal language.
Unless the future society is possited to be of anglophone descent (Weber's Graysons come to mind) most writers tend to leave it up to the reader these days.
(Foreign rights have value, too.
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