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Originally Posted by stonetools
I think that as more and more non-English SF gets written, the EAUL trope will go away. After all; ., it will look a little silly if Sunil Vishnwanath of the ISS Krishna is seen as speaking English. Mostr linkly, he'll be speaking Hindi or maybe, Interlingua.
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Maybe not quite as silly as you think. India how so many languages, from several different language families, that there is a lot of resistance to making Hindi the universal language of India. And I don't see a particular reason for them to replace English with Interlingua as a neutral universal language.
Now that being said, if you replace your hero's point of origin with a national of China, Brazil or Argentina, I agree with you entirely.
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Bill