Re: Jack Vance's languages Re: Musical conlangs
| From: | Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 18, 2002, 9:51 |
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On Friday 18 October 2002 01:37 am, Markus Miekk-oja wrote:
> >Now I come to think of it, Jack Vance wrote a story about an alien race,
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> the
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> >Kaa, who had a flutish/flutey language. And they had large sections of
> >continuous narrative to indicate states of mind, requests, arguments,
> >whathaveyou ... I also can't recall the novel's title, but the central
> >character was an interesting muso called Gastel Etzwane.
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> Jack Vance has a book called "The Languages of Pao", hasn't he? Is it good?
> What is it really about? Is this novel, perchance, in it?
No, not this one. I've never read "The Languages of Pao".
The world of this story was a metal-poor world out in the middle of nowhere.
But for the life of me I just can't recall the title.
Wesley Parish
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> - Markus Miekk-oja
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