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Spoken Cat (was Brithenig)

From:Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 4, 2000, 2:56
I checked this out on Amazon.com.  Spoken Cat was not listed.
How To Speak Cat was: apparently, this is the abbreviated American
Version.  Spoken Cat is the expanded version available in Britain.
It figures!

Critics give high marks to this book by Alexandra Sellers, who is
apparently a linguist originally, but also the author of a number
of other books.  They say it gently mocks cats, cat lovers, and
language.

I wonder what they took out in How To Speak Cat.

Sally
(question below about _The Divine Names_).


andrew wrote:
> I went into the library to get some books out on cats so I could work on > my cat creatures and there on the shelf I found a book called Spoken Cat > by Alexandra Sellers (1997) London: Bellew Publishing. A book on a > conlang that I have never heard of hidden among the cat books. That was > a treat! > > - andrew. > -- > Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@earthlight.co.nz > > The sacred writers have clothed God in a human form, like gleaming > amber or fire, and have spoken of its eyes, and ears, and hair, and > face, and hands, and wings, and pinions, and arms, and back, and feet. > - The Divine Names, 1.8
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