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Syndicate Standard Language

Syndicate Standard · Standard · syndicate-standard

The Crawl's default language, notably not the one the containment interface is written in.

Story so far

The Containment Interface gives Carl his first experience of text that is not Syndicate Standard. He can read the words and understand the numbers, but there is a fractional moment before it translates — a lag he has never seen before in the Crawl's normally seamless localization.

The anomaly makes him guess at the interface's origin: the The Valtay home language, or whatever tongue Paulie spoke. It also feeds his conviction that someone outside the Syndicate built the menus, and therefore that the choice between The Fuse and Disconnect Containment might be a trap laid by hands he cannot identify.

Role

The linguistic baseline whose absence tips Carl off that the interface is foreign-built.

Relationships

Containment Interface — Written in something other than Standard, with a translation lag
Syndicate — Their default language across the Crawl
The Valtay — A suspected source of the interface's actual language
Sources — 3 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 2
  • The galaxy's official tongue — and, when a crawler suddenly hears it, a signal that the conversation is off the record.
Chapter 20
  • The galaxy's common written language, used for the "Princess Posse or Death" lettering on the elves' tattoos.
Chapter 26
  • The Crawl's default language, notably not the one the containment interface is written in.
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