Re: Climate Suprise! (Was: Re: The Urge to Explore - Nuclear Power!)

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 01:34:40 GMT, aranders@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Alan Anderson)
wrote, in part:

>Seriously, whatever language the aliens are "actually" speaking, their
>words are rendered in a language the reader is assumed to know. That's
>for an entirely different reason from assuming advanced technology.

There's nothing wrong with _that_. The complaint is, rather, that many
science-fiction TV shows (for understandable reasons) completely gloss
over and avoid dealing with the problem of establishing initial
communication across a language barrier.

This is not a question of how things are rendered, it is a question of
implausible events and scenarios taking place within the sequence of
narrated events itself.

John Savard
http://www.quadibloc.com/index.html
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