A Voice Crying Out for Help part 2

 

The humans who had been transferred all possessed at least a certain degree of learning.

Many seemed to have worked in factories and the like as well. Judging by where they had appeared, it was possible they had been transferred primarily from major industrial regions.

「There was an SF story like this in the country Jack and I came from. A grand space epic where humanity, freed from labor, goes out to explore the stars. This world really is something like that, isn’t it?」

「Please do not call it another world. Your Earth is the root of all this.」

「That’s true. More than anything, there’s no such thing as another world where English is this widespread. And not just English, but 21st-century-level English at that.」

English had changed from Middle English into modern English through the Great Vowel Shift. A great many of its words had also been borrowed from other languages. There was