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<blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 5861708">This pissed me off to no end about Stargate.&nbsp; Uncharted worlds?&nbsp; Alien races?&nbsp; No problem, everyone speaks English here!&nbsp; I think the number of worlds in which people couldn't communicate can be counted on one hand.&nbsp; At least in other sci-fi shows they had the hand-waive of &quot;universal translator&quot;, which even then had a few times it didn't work.I agree, which is why I would see it maintained as a trade language, sort of like how in Waterworld there was a &quot;universal language&quot;(which I forget what it was comprised of), but what bothers me about it is how it makes the largest and perhaps the most diverse species so generic.I'm not suggesting they get actual languages, just that each species gets it's own language, humans included.Again, mostly it's to pull humans up out of the &quot;generic D&amp;D race&quot; spot.&nbsp; I'd be happy and fine with &quot;Common&quot; being a trade language and just giving each race it's own special tongue(even if it's just a name of a language).&nbsp; Settings can still be specific on what each race, culture, or nation speak.True, but even then it's still a specific language(French/English/Greek/ect... depending on your period), not &quot;common&quot;.&nbsp; It just feels like an excuse to make humans even more generic.&nbsp; They don't even get their own language they just speak &quot;common&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sunseeker, post: 5861708"] This pissed me off to no end about Stargate. Uncharted worlds? Alien races? No problem, everyone speaks English here! I think the number of worlds in which people [I]couldn't[/I] communicate can be counted on one hand. At least in other sci-fi shows they had the hand-waive of "universal translator", which even then had a few times it didn't work. I agree, which is why I would see it maintained as a trade language, sort of like how in Waterworld there was a "universal language"(which I forget what it was comprised of), but what bothers me about it is how it makes the largest and perhaps the most diverse species so [I]generic.[/I] I'm not suggesting they get [I]actual[/I] languages, just that each species gets it's own language, humans included. Again, mostly it's to pull humans up out of the "generic D&D race" spot. I'd be happy and fine with "Common" being a trade language and just giving each race it's own special tongue(even if it's just a name of a language). Settings can still be specific on what each race, culture, or nation speak. True, but even then it's still a [I]specific language[/I](French/English/Greek/ect... depending on your period), not "common". It just feels like an excuse to make humans even more generic. They don't even get their own language they just speak "common". [/QUOTE]

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