There's another interesting blog post, by Sharon Miller (half of the team writing the Liaden sf books) that briefly addresses the language used in SF, mostly in light of one of their books, but she raises an interesting point:
http://sharonleewriter.com/2012/05/y...unny-part-one/
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You of course know that writers use. . .techniques. . .in order to signal readers, gently letting them know what sort of experience they should expect. A prominent technique is the use of genre-appropriate language — High Fantasy reads differently than Hard SF, which reads differently than Urban Fantasy, all of which reads differently than Mystery.
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