Sf writers have ways of telling their readers first that a narrative is set in a divergent timeline and secondly when that timeline diverged from ours. Thus, Pope Martin Luther means no Reformation.
We have had some Latin on the blog, notably:
League Latin in the Polesotechnic league;
aliens quoting Latin in the Terran Empire period.
So what does the following dialogue suggest?
"'Where are you from? And how does it happen that you speak only Greek, of all known languages?'
"'I speak Latin, too.'
"'Latin?' She frowned in thought. 'Oh, the Roman speech, was it not? I am afraid you will find no one knows much about it.'" (p. 188)
The first big clue.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
If even non-humans in the future of our timeline quoted Latin, that would strongly indicate the "Roman speech" was very important in human history. A timeline where that was NOT the case would be a very big clue that something ODD had happened!
Ad astra! Sean
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