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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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I'm not sure that more non-English SF will be written; for whatever reason it's a mostly anglophone genre.
Although I haven't read a book in a long time where the universal language was explicitly described as being English.
However, the very concept that there is *one* universal language language that everyone speaks is died-in-the-wool American Cultural Imperialism (tm) (Although the British aren't far behind us in that regard.) Why should there be one universal language - of whatever flavor.