Frog Name

Rich Horton · 05 Nov 1998, 03:27 · from urth-v0021.mbox · original

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From: rrhorton at concentric.net (Rich Horton)
Subject: (urth) Frog Name
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 03:27:41 GMT
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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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