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

I just thought of two more short stories that feature
linguists -- "Name of the Rose" and "Omnilingual".
Sorry, but I can't remember the authors' names.

Adam


--- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:19:00AM -0700, JS Bangs
> wrote:
> > > 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.)
>
> _Hellspark_, by Janet Kagan.
>
> Disney's _Atlantis_ features a linguist protaganist,
> but sadly, in the
> second half of the movie the "linguistics" become so
> ludicrous as to
> ruin the whole thing for anyone who knows anything
> about the subject.
>
> > Hiro Protagonist of Snowcrash is not exactly a
> linguist, but he does do a
> > lot of linguistics in the course of the novel.
>
> It's more the case that others do the actual
> linguistics for him, but
> linguistics does feature prominently in the plot,
> which in goes into quite
> some speculative detail on the original purpose and
> nature of language
> itself.
>
> -Mark

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