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Re: Conlangs in History

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Saturday, August 19, 2000, 21:09
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