Isolated for six months one winter, a group of scientists changed how they spoke.
  • someguy3@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 months ago

    You put international researchers from different countries together, it doesn’t surprise me that it would blend together.

    Among those staying at Rothera that winter were a couple of Americans, an Icelandic mechanic, a few Germans, some Scots and a Welsh speaker.

    • RuBisCO@slrpnk.net
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      9 months ago

      “Howdy, XO,” he drawled. The old west affectation common to everyone from the Mariner Valley annoyed Holden. There hadn’t been a cowboy on Earth in a hundred years, and Mars didn’t have a blade of grass that wasn’t under a dome, or a horse that wasn’t in a zoo. Mariner Valley had been settled by East Indians, Chinese, and a small contingent of Texans. Apparently, the drawl was viral. They all had it now. “How’s the old warhorse today?”

      James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

    • IndiBrony@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      An American, an Icelandic, a German, a Scotsman and a Welshman walk into Antarctica, and þú cannae verstehen the fuck unrhyw af Þeim sagen.