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 ...