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Old 01-31-2021, 03:57 PM   #6
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Default Re: Cultural additions to the setting

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Originally Posted by johndallman View Post
Another detail: documentation. Lots of maintenance in space is done by LAIs and NAIs. Those are pretty good with language, but they may trip over excessively creative use of words. So there are restricted-vocabulary dialects of major human languages that are designed to be readily comprehensible to LAIs and NAIs, and accessible (if dull reading) to the fully sapient.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpli...hnical_English was designed in the 1980s for aircraft maintenance instructions, and I do recommend that page for details about the ways in which it is kept simple. (For example, any single word can only ever be one part of speech.)
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