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[–] lwaxana_katana@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I am unsure how Lanthanites can have a distinct accent if they spent centuries successfully blending in, but I agree that it's interesting.

[–] LibraryLass@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago

Structural differences in their larynx, tongue, or lips seem likely.

[–] FormerGameDev@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe they first arrived in Romania, centuries ago, or some such.

Then once Earth discovered Romanians (or whatever) are actually different species, it put a lot of things in perspective.

(like, the legends of vampires?)

[–] caleb@pub.calebhearth.com 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@FormerGameDev I hope not. Romanians being another species is too close to pushing on bigotry against the Romani.

[–] FormerGameDev@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could easily just make a whole new country/geographic location up, like Marvel did.

[–] caleb@pub.calebhearth.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@FormerGameDev yeah not a bad idea. I don’t recall them doing so for Earth locations before but that doesn’t have to stop them.

[–] FormerGameDev@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago

TOS explained our ancient deities as aliens (basically), why not an entire segment of earth people? :D I guess it depends on just how many of the Lanthanites there were on Earth. But there's a bit of a clue that there's at least enough that there's a known accent, even if it's not very common.

Could perhaps be that at one time there was a large population, but they decided to vacate Earth after coming out, so their accent is largely unknown to the general population?

i'd guess probably more like they just had a very small community, though, not like an entire nation.

[–] LibraryLass@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Romanians and Romani aren't the same thing. But yeah, probably best not to imply that any human ethnicity are secret aliens.

[–] caleb@pub.calebhearth.com 1 points 1 year ago

@LibraryLass Yup I know but many don’t. Agreed.

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Blending in doesn't mean they wholly abandoned their original culture. It just means that humans never got to see it.