Contributors wanted f or book on "Invented Languages"
Mullins, Bill
Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Fri Jul 22 16:15:07 UTC 2005
> The examples I am thinking of are Heinlein's "Glory Road"
Heinlein's novella "Gulf" has a race of "supermen", whose enhanced
ability is that they think better (more efficiently) than everyone else.
He describes a language which optimizes fast communication called
"Speedtalk".
See:
http://tenser.typepad.com/tenser_said_the_tensor/2005/05/gulf_by_robert_
.html
When you get there, there are links on the right-hand side for other
discussions of linguistics in Science Fiction that may be useful.
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