Belter

belter English Etymology From en belt -er inhabitant. Noun en science fiction An inhabitant of an asteroid belt, especially that between Mars and Jupiter. en 1966 February w:Larry Niven The Warriors If 16 2 (#99 overall) 152 You noticed a habit of mine once. I never make gestures. All Belters have that trait. It's because on a small mining ship you could hit something waving your arms around. en 2015-12-22 Remembering the Cant 1 3 The Expanse (TV series) The Expanse w:Steven Strait Jim Holden Earth and Mars have been stepping on the necks of the Belters out here for over 100 years and I didn't want to be the boot. en Annalee Newitz and Cyrus Farivar Nick Farmer knows dozens of languages, so he invented one for The Expanse w:Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/12/nick-farmer-knows-dozens-of-languages-so-he-invented-one-for-the-expanse/ 2019-12-22 He also decided that Belters wouldn’t use the term “bullshit,” because there would be no bulls in the Belt. Instead, they would come up with a uniquely Belter curse, “kaka felota,” a term for what happens when your toilet backs up in low gravity and shit floats all over the place. (“Kata felota” literally means “floating shit.”) https://web.archive.org/web/20210225220235/https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/12/nick-farmer-knows-dozens-of-languages-so-he-invented-one-for-the-expanse/ Hypernyms en Solarian Derived terms en Belter Creole Proper noun en Belter Creole. en Annalee Newitz and Cyrus Farivar Nick Farmer knows dozens of languages, so he invented one for The Expanse w:Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/12/nick-farmer-knows-dozens-of-languages-so-he-invented-one-for-the-expanse/ 2019-12-22 To communicate, they evolve a creole called Belter, which becomes the lingua franca for what is essentially the solar system’s new proletariat. The resulting Belter creole is a crazy mix of English, Chinese, romance languages like French, German, Persian, Hebrew, Zulu, and a few other surprises. Farmer says he has over 1,000 Belter words in his personal dictionary, and he keeps adding more as the show’s producers and fans request them. https://web.archive.org/web/20210225220235/https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/12/nick-farmer-knows-dozens-of-languages-so-he-invented-one-for-the-expanse/ References 337 Belter n. Anagrams en beelrt Beltre Elbert Lebert treble en Artificial languages Celestial inhabitants