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From: deand@dmapub.dma.org (Daniel D. Dean)
Subject: Re: language novels
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Nine Inch Nails (buttrcup@expert.cc.purdue.edu) wrote:

: I feel like reading a book.
: Can anybody recommend a good novel
: concerning language/linguistics/etc.?

   There are two science fiction books I could recommend:
      "The Languages of Pao" by Jack Vance
      "Babel-17" by Samuel R. Delany
   They're both 2 of the rare science fiction novels where the science
   is linguistics.

   Dan Dean

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