The drift in language happens in gaming in the other direction too.
Anglic is the official language of the Third Imperium. It's a descendant of American English.
"Present" day in my Traveller universe is Imperial Year 1110, the year the 5th Frontier War vs the Zhodani ends.
That's 5631 AD to us Solomani types.
Three thousand six hundred fifteen years.
That's more time than Roman Latin had to turn into Italian. A lot more time.
While on one hand you could say that computers and digitalization of what we read and the permanence of audio-visual entertainment compared to even 50 years ago would slow linguistic drift...
The volume occupied by the Third Imperium wasn't all one nation the entire time. Anglic has only been the official language for 1110 years. Even assuming no drift in that time, there's still 2505 years of people left to their own devices just making it up as they go, as people will.
That's also skipping the American English tendency to outright steal words from other languages as it suits them. Other English does too, but they express it as "borrowing".
Traveller Anglic is probably as similar to English as Coptic is to Ancient Egyptian. If they're really, really lucky it's a modern vs ancient Greek drift.
Anglic is the official language of the Third Imperium. It's a descendant of American English.
"Present" day in my Traveller universe is Imperial Year 1110, the year the 5th Frontier War vs the Zhodani ends.
That's 5631 AD to us Solomani types.
Three thousand six hundred fifteen years.
That's more time than Roman Latin had to turn into Italian. A lot more time.
While on one hand you could say that computers and digitalization of what we read and the permanence of audio-visual entertainment compared to even 50 years ago would slow linguistic drift...
The volume occupied by the Third Imperium wasn't all one nation the entire time. Anglic has only been the official language for 1110 years. Even assuming no drift in that time, there's still 2505 years of people left to their own devices just making it up as they go, as people will.
That's also skipping the American English tendency to outright steal words from other languages as it suits them. Other English does too, but they express it as "borrowing".
Traveller Anglic is probably as similar to English as Coptic is to Ancient Egyptian. If they're really, really lucky it's a modern vs ancient Greek drift.