Flandry's spaceship, Hooligan, has transported Yewwl and her party a long distance across Ramnu. Arrived, they meet tall, slender Ramnuans with differently colored fur, carrying human-made objects. When Yewwl opens and droops her vane to express incomprehension of a question, the male stranger addresses her in Anglic. He has less vocabulary and grammar then her and neither has a vocalizer but some communication is possible.
I have seen two Europeans of different nationalities communicating in English and wished that all three of us parolis Esperanton.
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Kaor, Paul!
But English is the real world "Esperanto" of our times. And I can well imagine an evolved form of English becoming "Anglic" in the future. And becoming the commonly used language of an interstellar civilization (if some other language doesn't displace it). A rootless "unreal" language like Esperanto will never be widely used.
Sean
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