Ian Douglas wrote a number of interesting Sci Fi / Military books (the Heritage Trilogy and the Inheritance Trilogy particularly) and somewhere in there, because the Marines were fighting so far from home and travel took time, that by the time they came back home, so long had changed that the neighborhoods had changed, the music had changed, dress had changed, and even the language had changed enough it was hard to follow. The Marines (and one assumes Navy) must have felt 'out of time' and orphaned by the difference between the time they experienced and that the planets they came from experienced.

In one of the later books, they have realized their families are gone and their descendants are a different sort of folks... so they basically recognize that the people they still have commonality with are the other Marines and Navy and they elect to mostly stay to those relationships. And they realize because of this reality, some rules against fraternization have to change.

Language changing was an interesting aspect of the effects of campaigns fought with relativistic effects of time passing differently depending who was moving around near light speed and who was not.

TomB

On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 12:25 PM Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml list) < xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

I remember that older books used to use the (I think it's from latin) radius -> radii convention extensively.

One book in particular was about combat a/c in WWI.

A single a/c was an 'Albatros' but more than was "flight of Albatri".

I've noticed that this has been changing over the last 5 decades.

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On Friday, September 11, 2020, 06:39:36 AM MST, xxxxxx@gmail.com < xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

Then there's abuse of latin roots....

Radius -> Radii

Gladius -> Gladii

P*nis -> P*nii

I think English is like software that has been patched uncountable times.... the only real solution is a rewrite from scratch.... of maybe that was Esperanto....

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On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 04:31:18 -0400, xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote to Freelance
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>Leaf -> leaves
>Beef -> beeves

>It might not be correct, but it is the sort of parallel that someone could
>use.

>Grouse -> Geese
>House -> Heese
>Louse -> Leese

Actually, I'd think along the lines of

mouse -> mice, and
louse -> lice, therefore
grouse -> grice
house -> hice

Then, there's

goose -> geese, and
tooth -> teeth, therefore
booth -> beeth
moose -> meese

We also have

ox -> oxen, so why not
box -> boxen
fox -> foxen

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