Re: Greenberg's universals for SVO languages & CaosPidginruff-sketch

Nik Taylor wrote:

> Maybe some small country (like, say,
> Finland or Romania) today will lead the colonization of Space, and thus
> their lang will be a major Solar language.  :-)
Right.  In L. Sprague de Camp's stories of the _Viagens Interplanetarias_,
the common language off Earth is Brazilian Portuguese, and in Vernor Vinge's
_A Fire Upon The Deep_, the part of humanity (probably only a small part)
that participates in galactic civilization speaks Samnorsk ("Common
Norwegian").

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