Re: THEORY: Browsing at Borders Public Library

On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:

> > From: Matt Pearson <jmpearson@...>
>
> > >        Philip Mann, The Eye of the Queen, Panther 1984, 240 pp.
> > >        Synopsis: When legendary linguist Matius Thorndyke visits the
> > >                  bizarre planet of Pe-Ellia, he is inexorably sucked
> > >                  into the local way of life, of sex, of death.
> >
> > Finally!  A novel that paints an accurate picture of the linguist's life!
>
> That's what I thought too... I hope I get it in time for an upcoming
> plane trip, so Sylvia can get her review soon.
If one carefully reads either the Grammar of Limbu or the Grammaticale
Verkenning van het Bumthang (esp. the lexicons!), it becomes clear
that this description ('life, sex or death') is indeed an accurate
description of the life of at least one field linguist ;-). I seldom
blush, but I did when I translated the single untranslated text in
the G.o.L...

Perhaps it would be an interesting translation exercise for the
more ambitious list members, too!

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://denden.conlang.org/~bsarempt