Recently I came across a movie, which turned out to be a sci-fi, cyberpunk classic. I am actually a little ashamed to say that I have only just come across this movie, since it really is a classic. The movie I am talking about is Blade Runner. A movie that basically opened the cyberpunk genre to cinema and has since influenced a number of movies. What caught my eye, though, is that the Blade Runner Los Angeles of the future is depicted as a multilingual city, even having its own slang, called “city-speak”. For those of you, who don't know what cyberpunk is here comes a short introduction: Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction. The difference to "conventional" sci-fi, is the overall dystopian atmosphere. The world is depicted as a place where pessimism and violence prevail. Rooted in the 1980s, cyberpunk and reflects the rising critique on commercialization and urbanization of the time. Hollinger describes cyberpunk as follows “cyberpunk can be r...