"Gary L. Nunn" wrote:
>
> I really, really like Stargate SG-1, but it is really starting to annoy
> me that every alien race that they meet knows English - but they all
> have alien type writing. I realize that the back story is that all of
> the humans in the galaxy have common origins because of the Goa'uld, but
> I think the language would evolve very differently over the thousands of
> years of isolation.
>
> Gary
>
> Sum it all up in one word - WTF Maru
Yes, I've been watching the Stargate series too, taping
4 episodes a Monday from SciFi. Although I'm about two months
behind in actually watching them at the moment.
It bugs me too, but the alternative would be to have
Daniel/Jonas do all the talking, translating for O'Neil et al.
All this with subtitles! That would interupt the flow of things
a fair amount.
---David
<on topic> In _The Practice Effect_, the humans speak English
but have an invented syllabary to write in. So who's to argue?
<off topic>
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