![]() ![]() "But there are some anchor sounds that we are aiming toward regardless of how strong or weak an accent is. "The idea was that Belter would be consistently inconsistent," Armstrong says. In Rotilio's case, he used his Italian inflection. To do that, Armstrong asked each actor to speak Belter with their own personal style. Belter can't sound too much like any language on Earth. Now when you hear Rotilio and the other actors speak it, you pick up hints of familiar accents and languages-a little Italian here, some South African there, but just as soon as you think you've figured out which Earth-bound accent the actor is imitating, it changes. The idea was that Belter would be consistently inconsistent. *The Expanse'*s patois has become, like Klingon and Dothraki, the show's great unifier-the slang all devotees speak. And, according to Farmer, someone even proposed marriage in Belter. A punk band wrote a song in the language. Enthusiasts regularly tune in to Rotilio and Farmer's weekly Belter class on Twitter. This is perhaps why the language resonates so well with the show's fans on Earth. To hear it spoken on the show is to understand how much has changed in this future, but also how similar the Belter experience is to that of immigrants at any time, including now. Belter is the lingua franca for the universe's most dispossessed peoples. And, just like their bodies changed to acclimate to low gravity, their language also evolved to communicate in the universe's ultimate melting pot. ![]() Belters are the displaced underclass, a great hoard of humanity who left every nation on Earth to find work in the outer reaches. The Expanse takes place 200 years in the future, a time when humans have colonized Mars and the entire solar system.
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