>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).

That is deliberately unanswered.

--G.
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