Quote:Foxboy wrote:I have not gotten into it yet, but Marduk is the biggest concentration of actual spaniards in fenspace, so it's not so much "conscious choice" but "speaking their own dialtect".
Hmm. Seems to me that Marduk probably has the highest percentage of native Spanish speakers in Fenspace, and it confuses a lot of tourists because the local dialect is closer to European Spanish than that of the Americas... by conscious choice.
Though, there are some speakers of Marduk Spanish that, if they were speaking English, would sound like Southern Californians trying to use BBC English pronunciation.
Since Oscar is spanish, and owns a construction companty, when the spanish construction bubble explodes in 2021-11 he will take the oportunity to sweep in and hire, literally, thousands of experienced workers than are now jobless. About one third (7-10 thousand) of Mardukans are those spaniards and their families.
One of the gadgets than Genesis will build by the thousands (probably oursorced to another company, as it does not feel like the sort of thing Bernie or Oscar would develop) are translators. Unfortuantely for the average fen, before the Professor creates his multi-translator, they will be either spanish-to-english or spanish-to-japanese gadgets; they could never manage to build the English-to-(any language but spanish)