Gliese 1337
Intellectual musings on Life, Languages, and Computer Programming.
Saturday, March 25, 2023
The Sci-Fi Linguistics of The Embedding
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The Embedding , by Ian Watson, is... not good. It tied for the Campbell Award in 1974 and won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1975 , and...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
The Sci-Fi Linguistics of Babel-17
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Despite being far from the only, or even the best, novel, novella, or short story about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, Samuel R. Delaney's ...
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Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Linguistics & Andy Weir
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If you have read one book by Andy Weir, it's probably The Martian (also available in a classroom edition , with less swearing!); or pe...
Monday, March 6, 2023
OK, fine, I'll do Arrival
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But first, we have to talk about the Story of Your Life , Ted Chiang's novella on which the movie Arrival was based. (As usual, both of...
Monday, February 20, 2023
How can we portray languages in games?
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I've looked at books. I've looked and movies and TV shows. I've skirted around looking at audiobooks. But what about games ? Tab...
Sunday, February 12, 2023
Decoding Sangheili in Halo
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The Halo TV series , adapted from the eponymous video games, features a conlang, Sangheili, used by the Covenant aliens and developed joint...
Saturday, February 11, 2023
Some Thoughts on Gripping & Backtile
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Gripping and Backtile are languages (or language sketches) by Sai , with collaborators, in the tactile modality--i.e., communicated through ...
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