On Conglish, Espancon & Condarin (ENVOYS UNIVERSE language revitalization)

NOTE: This is not an article about politics or about tensions in the Middle East. This is an article about practical linguistics and their (minor) use in my science fiction works.

Recently I had an extremely pleasant conversation with a reader via email. The reader was warm and complimentary about the 3 DCHC books they’d read so far in my scifi universe: Exclusion Zone, Third Contact and Assured.

But they had a question about my use of language in the books…

[In Exclusion Zone (set in ...