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

On Monday, October 20, 2003, at 07:19  PM, JS Bangs wrote:
> J. K. Hoffman sikyal:
>> 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
>
One of the main characters in David Brin's "Jijo" (Uplift Storm?)
trilogy set in his Uplift universe is a linguist.... i can't remember
her name at the moment though.  I think he has some linguist characters
in his other books, too.


-Stephen (Steg)
  "[would you like a] 'virgin'?"
      ~ what happens when you give silly English names
         to products in non-English-speaking countries