I don't know if this has been worked out or not, but is the Galactic Standard language English, or another language that's actually readily learnable by non-native (especially alien) speakers without fifteen years of schooling? English IS one of the two most difficult major languages of Earth to learn, after all, and one would hope that a galactic government would choose a vastly easier and more consistent language as Standard (assuming it's a natural language and not an artificial one like Esperanto).

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