From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   Dorothy J Heydt wrote:   
   >   
   > I'm currently writing a character of Terran descent who grew up   
   > on Mars and is currently passing for half-Martian (there are no   
   > other Martians in the vicinity to out him), simply by speaking   
   > Terran with two Martian characteristics: no contractions, no   
   > sentence fragments.  It looks all right to *me*, but I haven't   
   > yet had a chance to get anybody else to look at it.   
   >   
   When you write SF in English, and have no contractions in the dialog,   
   people, like the people in SF writers' workshops, will say "Lt. Data,"   
   and if they're the dogmatic sort, they'll go on about "million-dollar   
   robot who can't handle contractions is SF cliche" and stuff like that.   
   I mention this because Yoda has been brought up, not because I   
   necessarily believe that or would react that way myself.   
      
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