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Re: OT<?>: Linguist Heros was Re: No pronoun, no article

From:Adam Walker <carrajena@...>
Date:Monday, October 20, 2003, 17:58
And of course there's SHE's trillogy which centers on
a FAMILY of linguists, so nearly every character in
the book is a linguist.

And Rebecca Ore's second and third volumes of the
Being Human series feature a linguist from Berkley as
the girlfrien cum wife of Tom Redclay.

Adam

--- JS Bangs <jaspax@...> wrote:
> J. K. Hoffman sikyal: > > > I know a lot of folks don't think there have been > that many "linguist > > heroes" in fiction, but I think there are more > than we want to believe. > > For instance, the hero of _The Languages of Pao_ > by Jack Vance, who's > > name escapes me. The already mentioned _Babel > 17_, of course. Most > > recently, _The Scar_ by China Mieville has a > linguist heroine. In fact, > > she even makes a snide remark about someone > mistranslating the pluperfect. > > I'm away from my library, but I have a book called > _Aliens and > > Linguists_ which is an examination of linguistics > in science-fiction and > > fantasy. I *know* it lists other examples, but > they escape me at the > > moment. (I think C. J. Cherryh has had some > linguist heroes, as well.) > > > > When I get home again tonight, I'll scare up the > book and list out more. > > In the meantime, can anyone else think of > linguist heroes? There > > *have* to be more than the three I listed. > > Hiro Protagonist of Snowcrash is not exactly a > linguist, but he does do a > lot of linguistics in the course of the novel. > > Ransom from CS Lewis's Space Trilogy is a linguist. > > I read a book a while ago about a preternaturally > gifted linguist who used > his skills to learn an alien language and deliver > Earth from the alien > oppression. The title now eludes me, though. > > > -- > Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu > http://students.washington.edu/jaspax/ > http://students.washington.edu/jaspax/blog > > Jesus asked them, "Who do you say that I am?" > > And they answered, "You are the eschatological > manifestation of the ground > of our being, the kerygma in which we find the > ultimate meaning of our > interpersonal relationship." > > And Jesus said, "What?"
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