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More or less what happens in Firefly, though it's not explored in detail.
by dmurray 5y ago
More or less what happens in Firefly, though it's not explored in detail.
- bradknowles 5y agoThat was the retcon. The real reason that they spoke a pretend version of Mandarin was so that they could say things that would otherwise get stopped by the censors. They used it as their cursing language, among other things.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> More or less what happens in Firefly, though it's not explored in detail. Though the process is hinted to be very much top-down political, in that the Union of Allied Planets flag is a very obvious direct blending of the USA and PRC flags.