Her guess is a damn reasonable one, and Jim nods in response. "Yeah, that's pretty much it. There's been talk of classifying it as its own creole but it's just semantics at this point."

Her second comment makes him shrug. "Was a combo of a bunch of stuff, really. Earth was just coming out of World War Three and English had been nabbing vocab for centuries already. The Vulcans first landed in Montana, so they learned English first, and things kinda snowballed from there. Add most major Earth languages, a dash of xenolinguistics, mix well."