Yoon Ha Lee scripsit:
> <sardonic g> I noticed that sort of slipstream wordage in Greg
> Bear's _Queen of Angels_ and "Hardfought." I found it more annoying
> than endearing...there are authors who can *do* things like that and
> it's enchanting, but....
No, no. Bear is nowise to be blamed for either the Ander-Saxonisms
or the Latinisms left behind. It was I and no other who overcarried
(most of) the work into Ander-Saxon; Bear wrote plain Modern English.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
--Douglas Hofstadter