>Which means it's either an upcoming plot point, or too much of a
>headache ^_^.

Basically it just doesn't matter. It's a Plot Device. Like the universal translator, only it still allows people to switch to other languages and not be understood. I mentally just think of everyone speaking English because that's what I speak and that's the language the stories are written in...

And because I don't see the US switching to another language even in a few hundred years, and it is obvious that Standard-speakers can communicate easily on Earth in the US. So I think Standard is either English or as closely related to it as American English is to Queen's English.

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