Gliese 1337
Intellectual musings on Life, Languages, and Computer Programming.
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
A Loudspeaker-Compatible Photo-Phonology
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Last weekend, I gave a talk at the 10th Language Creation Conference on creating languages that do not use the human voice, in which I wen...
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Monday, April 10, 2023
Reactionless Drives & Over-Unity Devices
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So, IVO Ltd is getting ready to launch the IVO Quantum Drive, based on the theory of Quantized Inertia, into space., as a fuel-less, pure-...
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...
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