In a great many
science fiction stories and movies, Basic is the primary
language that is spoken in the
Galaxy. In almost all (if not all) of these stories, this language ends up being what we on
Earth understand as
English.
The likelihood of this being reality is, of course,
nil. However, the fact that so many of these books portray a language that is essentially
English as the major language of the
universe/
galaxy is interesting.