Re: OT<?>: Linguist Heros was Re: No pronoun, no article
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 20, 2003, 18:28 |
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Adam Walker scripsit:
> 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.
Umberto Eco and H. Beam Piper. I think calling William of Baskerville
a linguist is stretching things, though he does know Latin, Greek, and
maybe Arabic. It's a novel, BTW.
As for "Omnilingual", the point there is that some things transcend
language.
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