linguistic SF

[Jeff Prucher]

This may be what Arnold's recalling, but even if not it's a good starting
point.  It's a bit out of date, so I would add Ted Chiang's story "The Story of
Your Life".

http://www.princeton.edu/~browning/sf.html

Jeff Prucher


--- "Patti J. Kurtz" <kurtpatt4 at NETSCAPE.NET> wrote:

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> We wants it, too-- er-- I'd like a copy, too, if someone turns up that
> bibliography.
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> 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.
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> Patti Kurtz
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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!
> >
> >from my PDA, a recommendation from a friend:
> >
> >
> >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."
> >
> >
> >
> >I read it. I loved it.
> >
> >-- Mark A. Mandel
> >[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]
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> --
>
> Freeman - And what drives you on, fighting the monster?
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> Straker - I don't know, something inside me I guess.
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> Freeman - It's called dedication.
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> Straker - Pig-headedness would be nearer.
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