linguistic SF

[Patti J. Kurtz]

We wants it, too-- er-- I'd like a copy, too, if someone turns up that
bibliography.

Though I can also suggest one (2 really, it's a set):  Exile's Honor and
Exile's Valor by Mercedes Lackey.  Language isn't the main point, but
the main character speaks a dialect reminiscent of Yoda--sort of Object
Subject verb.  It's amusing.

Patti Kurtz

mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU wrote:

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>Arnold inquit:
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>somewhere there's an annotated bibiography of sf stories/books in which
>language issues and/or linguists figure prominently.
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>We wantssssss it, preciousssssssss!
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>from my PDA, a recommendation from a friend:
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>Hellspark, Janet Kagan. copyright 1988; 1998 Meisha Merlin trade-paperback
>edition. "If you haven't read it, I think you'd get a kick out of it.  It's
>set in a Galactic society where there are many cultures and they don't
>understand each other well.  It's partly about the definition of sapience
>and partly linguistic SF about the importance of non-verbal cues. -- I liked
>it."
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>I read it. I loved it.
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>-- Mark A. Mandel
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