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Re: THEORY: Browsing at Borders Public Library

From:Charles <catty@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 13, 1999, 3:54
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 ...