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I am unsure how Lanthanites can have a distinct accent if they spent centuries successfully blending in, but I agree that it's interesting.
Structural differences in their larynx, tongue, or lips seem likely.
Maybe they first arrived in Romania, centuries ago, or some such.
Then once Earth discovered Romanians (or whatever) are actually different species, it put a lot of things in perspective.
(like, the legends of vampires?)
@FormerGameDev I hope not. Romanians being another species is too close to pushing on bigotry against the Romani.
Could easily just make a whole new country/geographic location up, like Marvel did.
@FormerGameDev yeah not a bad idea. I don’t recall them doing so for Earth locations before but that doesn’t have to stop them.
TOS explained our ancient deities as aliens (basically), why not an entire segment of earth people? :D I guess it depends on just how many of the Lanthanites there were on Earth. But there's a bit of a clue that there's at least enough that there's a known accent, even if it's not very common.
Could perhaps be that at one time there was a large population, but they decided to vacate Earth after coming out, so their accent is largely unknown to the general population?
i'd guess probably more like they just had a very small community, though, not like an entire nation.
Romanians and Romani aren't the same thing. But yeah, probably best not to imply that any human ethnicity are secret aliens.
@LibraryLass Yup I know but many don’t. Agreed.
Blending in doesn't mean they wholly abandoned their original culture. It just means that humans never got to see it.