#oh and this doesn't even touch on the fuckery of the changed names themselves. hoo fucking boy
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#something about taking a bat to a hornet's nest whatever#i don't have any hard evidence for this. but i shouldn't need it either.#it's like... these aus like to take out or add consonants at random. there's no logic to it besides othering the alien characters away#from the human characters.#there's no linguistic merit to these name changes. they aren't speaking a real language.#by 'different languages' i'm including made-up languages. these garbled names aren't based on an established system.#but even if i were - and these aus had that inconceivable level of effort poured into them - it would still raise questions about#changing the extant names of these characters when the story you're writing is written in english.#you are butchering the names of characters who originate from a story written in a different language. that shit is disrespectful#unless you're being very. Very careful about it. and i sincerely doubt any of the kids doing this care very much at all#about the shit they're perpetuating by doing this.#because they don't know about it. which isn't an excuse. just leave their names be if you want to write a space odyssey#by 'being careful about it' i mean you have to know what you're doing and be aware of the ways it could go wrong#and do everything you can to mitigate that. i personally don't know if the effort is worth it for a fanfic#but someone out there might. who knows. i don't. that sounds like a ton of work#oh and this doesn't even touch on the fuckery of the changed names themselves. hoo fucking boy#'i need my characters to look like they're foreign. i know! i'll make their names into complete gibberish!'#that's not how language works. it is however very telling that these people behave like that's how language works.
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