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BillMullins
Joined: Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:40 pm Posts: 545
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Efficiency of languages
Anyone who recalls the discussions of Speedtalk in "Gulf" may find interesting.
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Fri Jul 08, 2016 11:21 am |
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PeterScott
Heinlein Nexus
Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:10 am Posts: 2236 Location: Pacific NorthWest
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Re: Efficiency of languages
Fascinating, thanks!
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mostlyclassics
Joined: Wed Jan 07, 2015 5:33 pm Posts: 131 Location: Evanston, IL
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Re: Efficiency of languages
Thanks from me too, BillMullins!
_________________ Tom Kendall www.mostlyclassics.net tom.kendall@mostlyclassics.net
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DanHenderson
Centennial Attendee
Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:21 am Posts: 786 Location: Sunnyvale, CA
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Re: Efficiency of languages
This was great! I took a Continuing Studies course at Stanford this year called The Glamour of Grammar, and this would have been a perfect supplemental reading. I've forwarded it to the instructor. Thank you!
_________________ “Don’t believe everything you see on the Internet.” –Abraham Lincoln
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beamjockey
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Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:46 am Posts: 545 Location: Aurora, IL, USA, Terra
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Re: Efficiency of languages
Those of you who like some linguistics in your science fiction would do well to see Arrival, a new film based-- somewhat faithfully-- on Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life."
It's a first-contact story in which a linguist works with alien visitors to establish communication. Like Chiang's story, Arrival resolutely turns aside, at many points, from being the kind of movie you'd expect from reading that well-worn premise.
It's very good, and it works, even though there is more Hollywood melodrama stirred in than the original story needed. Not so much as to keep it from belonging to the set of "SF movies for intelligent viewers," I think.
_________________ Bill Higgins bill.higgins@gt.org http://beamjockey.livejournal.com
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