CHAT Jargon-mangling (was: Worse Greek 102)
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 5, 2001, 19:23 |
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Spoilers ahead, beware.
* Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> [010205 19:36]:
> I gather it must be very hard for someone educated in a particular
> discipline to hear or read the lingo mangled so badly [..]
Ever read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson? I'm quite proud I managed to
finish it in spite of his (ab)use of linguistic theory. It's still a
good book, but to imagine how great it might have been if I hadn't
been reading linguistics texts for years, or if the main plot point
hadn't hinged on a *very* strong version of Sapir-Whorf... urrrgh
t.