Talk:Federation Standard

Hmm.. interesting... I had always assumed that Federation Standard was just a codified pidgin of various languages and that what was seen on television or in books had to be translated for our benefit. I had not heard of linguacode before (or did and forgot about it). It sounds like linguacode is based on multiple languages and it designed to be a language that all species can speak, or at least wrap their minds around its grammar structure. Is this correct? Just trying to make sure I understand the concepts correctly, and not quite sure if Talk pages are intended for this sort of thing.. : ) --RogueGypsy47 10:45, 2 August 2006 (CDT)

Where else would we talk about this? This is the perfect place. Every RPG I've played (Star Trek-wise) assumes that the language spoken throughout the Federation is a common language. We'd be pretty arrogant to think that a) English took over as the only language on Earth, and everybody spoke it, and b) then it took over the entire Federation, hundreds of species, billions of beings, and they all thought it was fine. RIGHT! We watch a Television show in our native language so we can understand it. That doesn't necessarily transfer to a "realistic" Trek universe. So the answer is to have a common language, one that each species can learn, but doesn't make their native tongue obsolete. The question is never brought up in the shows, 'cos they use the Universal Translators in their communicators, and everyone hears what they need to. But to be "realistic", there should be a common, non-English, Federation language. Standard is a pretty boring name, but kind of accurate. Now, the write up is "blah" but I tried to make it slightly technically plausible. They talked about linguacode on ENT, and it made sense that it could be part of a "universal standard" language, so I through that in. -Varaan 15:31, 2 August 2006 (CDT)