Yeah, I thought she'd appreciate a bit of Sheppard/Lorne. ^^ (Yeah, self-reccing, but with doing the databurst I feel worse not hooking people up with what they want.)
I know just enough linguistics to be totally wrong about it *g* And there are parallels to my own experience -- I never learned my native dialects, just English, and despite not being able to *acquire* language, I'm good at absorbing it. My speech will at times shift from heavy slang to formal English to American to British depending on the audience, and I'll often not even notice. So Teyla and Ronon's speech patterns (or Teal'c's) feel off to me that way, like they're using that stargate babelfish the producers haven't quite admitted to.
The religious and cultural angle now, I'm a tad more comfortable with extrapolating those from canon. Plus, the writers, actors, and set decorators (not so sure about wardrobe!) seem to be consistently heavy-handed with the clues.
As you can see, I'm always ready to chat about canon. *g* Y'know, with the faint hope that it inspires more fic to read.
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I know just enough linguistics to be totally wrong about it *g* And there are parallels to my own experience -- I never learned my native dialects, just English, and despite not being able to *acquire* language, I'm good at absorbing it. My speech will at times shift from heavy slang to formal English to American to British depending on the audience, and I'll often not even notice. So Teyla and Ronon's speech patterns (or Teal'c's) feel off to me that way, like they're using that stargate babelfish the producers haven't quite admitted to.
The religious and cultural angle now, I'm a tad more comfortable with extrapolating those from canon. Plus, the writers, actors, and set decorators (not so sure about wardrobe!) seem to be consistently heavy-handed with the clues.
As you can see, I'm always ready to chat about canon. *g* Y'know, with the faint hope that it inspires more fic to read.