Re: THEORY: Browsing at Borders Public Library

I concur. But the other story (whose plot I've long ago forgotten) that is
linked in my memory with the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is Delany's Babel 17.
Sylvia

At 09:30 10/13/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>You're probably thinking of the book named Languages of Pao, by Jack Vance.
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>From: Charles [mailto:catty@PACIFICNET.NET]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 10:55 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG
>Subject: Re: THEORY: Browsing at Borders Public Library
>
>
>Ed Heil wrote:
>
>[about Wierzbicka's natural semantic metalanguage]
>
>> However, they are still *texts in natural
>> language*...  A very restricted, neutral subset of natural language.
>> But natural language nonetheless.
>
>Somewhere, maybe decades ago, I think I heard part of a sci-fi story
>read over the radio, in which some culture or group spent all its time
>constructing "meta-languages" to Sapir-Whorf (indirectly control)
>the thoughts of (other?) civilization(s) somehow dependent on them?
>I wish I could find that story ...
>
Sylvia Sotomayor
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