FOR WRITERS
Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Christine Wright:
Do you address alien languages in your books? Do you write them and have a character / device translate, left it untranslated or just have everyone basically speak English or another basic human language? Or…?
I try to make translation part of the story. There is no translation from scratch you either have to see the aliens be sent a visual key or have a bilingual with one knowledge you know.
I do a combination of both…for example, in my Echelon’s End series, I used the word ‘node’ instead of hour.