Contact Situation
It isn’t clear exactly when earthly humans began arriving on Terra[1] , but at some point during the Age of Reason, people of several European nations began cropping up on the more or less empty world. Humans being so smitten with exploring at the time, it wasn’t long before the different groups, far flung as they were, came into contact with one another. An effort was promptly made to establish brotherhood among Terrans, to prevent as much conflict as could possibly be prevented. The first step to that, establish a Lingua Franca, which happened to be French, though, naturally, some smatterings of other words remained and became widely understood, especially a few dozen in English, German and Irish Gaelic.
Time passed slowly on Terra. Unity persisted among
the scattered towns. Some people remained all their lives there, and some came
only as vacationing aristocrats. Very few children were ever born there, though
such events were not unheard of. Rather, it was the hobby of bringing one’s
lovers as guests to the secret escape of another world that maintained the
population, and kept Terran French very, very close to Earthly French. However,
those children born in the first one-hundred years of the re-settling of Terra
began to cater to the whims of the vacationers, the business bringing them
wealth, power, and prestige. It wasn’t long before a rigid, complex class system
began to emerge and entwine itself with the government.
Following the opening of Japan, Terra received its first Japanese immigrants.
How were they received? However well the money they brought with them dictated
they should be received. Though, linguistically, there was a sense that Terran
French had been around longer, was well established, and deserved some especial
regard for that.
And to the Japanese arrivals, Terra was a never ending soapland[2] fit to be
savored and enjoyed. Following World War II, the largest city so far on Terra
was established using primarily Japanese funding. People flocked to it, the
Terran population began to double, and it was at this point the government
stepped in and began helping to establish universal rules of the pidgin that was
being adopted all over Terra. In truth, they didn’t do all that much besides
change the official language to Bienséance Bokokugo and clarify verb
conjugations, which varied slightly from area to area, but formalities are
formalities…
[1] More or less, because there were a handful of people abiding there still, who had their own language, one which the few people to ever witness it compared to Proto-Indo-European, or Proto-Latin. As the handful of native people eventually came to be considered threats to the social hierarchy, their language, called Aryesha-niien, was never taught to or learned by any Bienséance Bokokugo speakers. Those who can speak Aryesha-niien tend to differ to Bienséance Bokokugo terms for things they technically named first if the situation should arise, IE “Eurydiche” as opposed to “Aeryaden” simply to be understood.
[2] Soapland being slang for “red light district” in Japan.
