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   From: bredband.net@ojevind.lang   
      
   "Derek Broughton"  skrev i meddelandet   
   news:2lhdl6-h5f.ln1@morgen.pointerstop.ca...   
   > Öjevind Lång wrote:   
      
   >>> He made worse slips toward the end; in one scene, Arcadia Darell claims   
   >>> she keeps a *baseball bat* under her bed! What's more, there was a   
   >>> reference near it to the cost of something or other in *dollars*, not   
   >>> Foundation credits.   
   >>   
   >> I suppose one could somehow excuse the first slip by saying that they   
   >> still play baseball in the distant future, but if so, he should at least   
   >> have spelled it "basbul bat" or something like that to maintain the sense   
   >> of distance.   
   >   
   > Of course they'll still be playing baseball.  And it will _still_ be   
   > spelled   
   > "baseball".  And, in no more than 25 centuries, I'm pretty sure we'll be   
   > able to eliminate the Designated Hitter rule...   
      
   I just remembered that in one of the books in the original  "Foundation"   
   trilogy, someone mentions that a couple of centuries before, a spelling   
   reform had been enacted. A letter had been replaced or scrapped or whatever.   
   No doubt Asimov, with his tremendous faith in the blessings of science and   
   "rationality", foresaw a drastic revison of the spelling of the English   
   language in the future. (It also seems pretty clear that he thought English   
   would be the only language still spoken.)   
     An amusing exampel of how most of the names in the trilogy are simply   
   respelled Anglo-American one is the mention of "the legendary Kambel   
   dynasty". Well, "legendary" or "renowned" or a word to some similar   
   effect.Maybe that was a discrete tribute to John W. Campbell.   
      
   Öjevind   
      
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