Belter creole isnt used often in the show, but its linguistically sound...
It certainly seems sound. I like that it is (mostly) comprehensible if you listen to it carefully, and also that it seems to me they quite deliberately show us different variants of it, depending on who is speaking and to whom they are speaking. It's very clear that the better-educated Belters are fluently bilingual, but that the more lumpen ones are more or less limited to their one, disrespected, "language". (I put that last word in quotes because I'm not sure whether linguists consider a creole a full language, a dialect or something else entirely. I'll bet the answer is: there's no consensus but there are an awful lot of arguments at linguistics cons.)
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Damn me, I forgot about the linguistics!
Date: 2018-07-04 06:17 am (UTC)It certainly seems sound. I like that it is (mostly) comprehensible if you listen to it carefully, and also that it seems to me they quite deliberately show us different variants of it, depending on who is speaking and to whom they are speaking. It's very clear that the better-educated Belters are fluently bilingual, but that the more lumpen ones are more or less limited to their one, disrespected, "language". (I put that last word in quotes because I'm not sure whether linguists consider a creole a full language, a dialect or something else entirely. I'll bet the answer is: there's no consensus but there are an awful lot of arguments at linguistics cons.)