omg i just found your linguistics au and i love it so much, you are so talented i swear. idk if this really lines up with your ideas about irken history, but i keep thinking about words like love and fun not existing in irken, and the control brains purposefully removed these words? which implies that there /are/ irken equivalents to these words, maybe only in an old version of the language, or some ancient texts or isolated irken cultures? but the traces of those words were erased on purpos
;-; thank you!!! I’m glad you’re enjoying the story so far. As for your theories about the missing Irken words... you’re absolutely right! Irken as a language wasn’t always so limited. It had words for fun, and love, and even titles for family members and friends. These words were erased on purpose. All Irken PAKs have the censored version of Irken installed as the default, as well as censorship protocols in place to prevent anyone from accidentally learning any of the words on the ban list, whether they be in Irken or any other language (we saw this to some extent with Zim in part 3 when his PAK started to shut down). We’ll see more of this in upcoming parts, too.
For now, it’s important to keep in mind that the censorship protocols are a part of the PAK functionality. If the PAK itself starts to malfunction, though...? Who knows what could happen 👀
