Re: Conlangs in History

Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> The seeming lack of language change in the Foundation trilogy really
> bothered me when I first read it a month ago <ducking>, but there were so
> many other things I loved about it that I forgave Asimov.
In "Foundation's Edge", Janov Pelorat, a comparative mythologist/amateur
linguist mentions, in talking about languages, something about how
Seldon sounds distinctly archaic.  This is in 498 FE.

Of course, there's also a reference to the fact that "you" is both
singular and plural in Standard Galactic.  What are the odds that a
language spoken 25 millennia from now, even if descended from English,
would replicate our strange 2nd person?

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