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Re: Omnilingual

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Thursday, October 8, 1998, 3:03
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998 19:22:19 -0500, Adam Walker <awalker@...> wrote:

>I read that one a long time ago. It was a fun concept and an >enjoyable read. Not sure it would really work out so neatly, but >hey, it's fiction.
I also read it a long time ago, in an interesting anthology called "Where Do We Go From Here?" (edited by Isaac Asimov). I enjoyed it a lot, but in retrospect the Martian language seems too "neat", almost as if it were designed to be easily decodable. Perhaps it was a Martian IAL?