# Frog Name

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 05 Nov 1998*

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### Rich Horton
*05 Nov 1998, 03:27*

> On Mon, 2 Nov 1998 16:47:49 -0800 (PST), Damien Broderick wrote:
> Some guy with a Frog name who's a computational linguist and whose fairly
> recent book has GLASS in the title.

I assume you mean Jean Mark Gawron, and the book is, I think, _Dreams
of Glass_.  (I haven't read it, but I have read his first novel, _An
Apology for Rain_, which was OK, and his second, _Algorithm_, which
was godawful and practically unfinishable.)

Another linguistics-derived book is _The Embedding_ by Ian Watson,
which involved raising kids speaking an invented language in the
Amazon.  Seems to have been somewhat Whorfian in outlook.

-- Rich Horton (Tusk)

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