Re: Conlangs in History

On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Jonathan Chang wrote:

> >A book that I found interesting, BTW, was Walter Meyer's _Aliens and
> >Linguists_--has anyone else read it?  I'd love to hear a real linguist's
> >thoughts on it; I know it's dated (he refers to Chomsky as "new") but I
> >found his analyses of sf (mis)portrayals of language/linguistics fascinating.
>
>     I liked that book a lot... I borrowed it from a library like 2-3 yrs ago.
> It was one of the 1st books to get me really goin' on languages (esp'ly
> futuristic English kinds... then - delvin' deeper inna linguistics - I
> "discovered" pidgin languages - in particular "mutant Englishes" -  and
> things have not been the same since...)
<nod>  I had a lot of fun reading it--I found it in a corner of one of
Cornell U.'s library.

>     I am trying to purchase a copy (it's outta-print). Anyone got a spare
> copy? *gigglabyte*
I have a copy, but no spare.  I did a search on http://www.abebooks.com
and there are two used copies available if you want to order 'em.  :-)

YHL