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# 11
02-24-2012, 03:44 PM
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Someone is ignoring forum rules...
Sacre Bleu!!! (I don't even know what that means.)
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# 12
02-24-2012, 04:42 PM
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Sacre Bleu!!! (I don't even know what that means.)
Obviously, they are talking about Blue Sacres. Duh! :p
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# 13
02-24-2012, 11:08 PM
My guess is they became so snobbish they couldn't even stand one another and promptly died out.
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# 14
02-25-2012, 12:10 AM
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Originally Posted by SenshiBat View Post
est-il le Robert est-il condamné ? Non de rob Com
nous vous construirons

lui une nouvelle comme b-4 trop
To your Hort be True
its just Troi mocking
"is he the Robert he is condemned? Not of rob COM we will build you he a news like b-4 too To your Hort Be True its just Troi mocking"

... Babelfish didn't understand any of that.... French must be doomed in the future...
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# 15
02-25-2012, 12:11 AM
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Bonjour! Pouvez-vous parler français?
no, i don't speak french
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# 16
02-25-2012, 12:15 AM
The 3 most used languages in the world are English, French and Spanish. In that order popular use.

So another question is: If French "died" in the Trek universe, did Spanish go first?
Or did Spanish go where no French word had gone before?
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# 17
02-25-2012, 12:16 AM
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# 18
02-25-2012, 12:21 AM
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Originally Posted by kirian_darkstar View Post
The 3 most used languages in the world are English, French and Spanish. In that order popular use.

So another question is: If French "died" in the Trek universe, did Spanish go first?
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i do not believe that is correct. manderin is first, english second and hindi and spanish are around 3rd and fourth. french is in the top 10 but not third.
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# 19
02-25-2012, 12:38 AM
Well, in the Star Trek future, the Americans obviosuly won WW3 (if you can win a nuclear war at all), and most of China and India and Europe became rather irrelevant. Hence the domination of the English language, and hence the obvious predominance of Americans among human Starfleet officers.

Yes, Picard is French, but apart from him, how many non-American officers can you count as opposed to those who seem to be from America?

American Starfleet personnel:
  • Archer
  • Tucker
  • Kirk
  • McCoy
  • Janice Rand
  • Riker
  • Crusher sen.
  • Crusher jun.
  • LaForge
  • Sisko
  • Bashir
  • Janeway
  • Kim (yes, Harry was obviously an American)
  • Paris

Non-American human Starfleet personnel from Earth:
  • Reed
  • Sato
  • Scotty
  • Sulu
  • Uhura
  • Chekov
  • Picard
  • Worf (in a way, he is Russian)
  • O'Brian

If becomes even worse if you count all the anglophones as "Americans" in the above lists...

Now, if we assume that this is sort of representative for Earth's population, we can conclude that America is the most populous of the surviving countries after WW3. Today, America has a bout 5% of Earth's population, in the centuries after WW3, it seems to be more like 60%. :p

And many countries simply don't seem to exist any more.
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02-25-2012, 12:44 AM
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