![]() Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: The Theme Park Version of Elizabethan (Early Modern) English, applied to any and all times before the Regency.Orphaned Etymology: Hold your horses? What's a horse?.Omniglot: Languages take time to learn very few people in Real Life speak more than four or five well.Note that this is not necessarily error, depending on time and opinions of author. ![]() Language Equals Thought: Follows the controversial Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, that language dictates (and limits) the ideas people can have and how they experience the world.Eternal English: Ignores the process of linguistic change, with people 1,000 years ago or 1,000 years hence speaking in the same dialect as the creators.Did Not Do the Bloody Research: mismatches the strength of Foreign Cuss Words.Antiquated Linguistics: The Theme Park Version of Victorian (essentially Present Day) English, spoken by everyone post-Regency up until the end of The Roaring Twenties.Often acceptable, since aliens speaking a completely different language can get very annoying. Aliens Speaking English: Ignores the difficulty of near-instantaneous translation between very different languages, to say nothing of differing physiology.Many language/linguistics tropes are attributable to this, and are split up here into errors in academic linguistics, translation errors, and errors in usage.īasic mistakes in the way languages work, evolve, and differ from each other. Indeed, the prevalence of this trope (and its relative lack of being noticed) can be attributed to this fact - most people recognize that when dealing with questions of physics, biology, chemistry, etc., they need to ask an expert (though many writers just don't care) - whereas with linguistics, most people don't even realize that there are experts to be asked, much less that their own knowledge is generally insufficient. In the case of linguistics, the vast majority of people have no idea it exists, never mind the basics. There's a whole lot of science-related fail in fiction, with some fields of knowledge bearing the brunt worse than others.
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