Redial the Gate: Past and Present

[fignewton]

redial_the_gate is now up to Past and Present. sidlj's recap is up at the comm, and it looks like we'll have some good discussions there.

I'm due to post some Kira-Linea meta on the comm on Thursday, but in the meantime, I want someone to handwave one thing for me, please: How in the world could Sam (not Daniel-the-linguist!) read Linea's diary? Are we expected to believe that Linea wrote her private thoughts in English?

ETA, because some people were confused:

No, really. Plain, handwritten English!




::listens to chirping crickets::

Comments

[6beforelunch.livejournal.com]

Ooo, good one.

Yes! Linea is super smart and she picked up English in the short time she was on Earth. Then, when her memory was wiped, the knowledge of the language remained. So she wrote in English and didn't even think it was strange because she had no reason to think it was strange. *nods*

[magnavox-23.livejournal.com]

But wouldn't she have written all that stuff before she lost her memory? She was still evil and carrying out experiments on those 2 old folks was she not?

I like the idea that she wrote in English to keep her work secret from the people on the planet. :)

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

As Magnavox points out, she wrote it before her lost her memory. OTOH, yes, the woman is brilliant, and she knew enough English to program the computer to type out "all debts are finally paid" or whatever the exact phrasing is. But I'm still having trouble connecting that to handwritten script. The threshold of disbelief only stretches so far before it collapses!