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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.
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