Re: THEORY: Browsing at Borders Public Library
| From: | Gressett, David <david.gressett@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 13, 1999, 14:30 |
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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 ...