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

Oh, and one more I've read is _Alien Tongue_ which was
a rather good read years back.  I can't remember the
author's name on this one either, but it was in the
same imprint as _Red Mars_ (NOT by Kim Stanley
Robbinson)and _The Modular Man_.  Unfortunately, I
don't remember those author's names either.

Adam

--- Adam Walker <carrajena@...> wrote:
> 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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