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This thread is for comments about So, Your Utopia Needs a Language..., by Tristan Davenport
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David Moles
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Sweet article. Too bad English doesn't have Tamil's suffixes for rationality -- I'll bet an SF writer could have a lot of fun with those.
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-- David
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Anonymous
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"h3" appears repeatedly in the article. Is this a placeholder for some word that the author intended (but forgot) to insert via search-and-replace?
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Kyle Niedzwiecki
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"h3" appears repeatedly in the article. Is this a placeholder for some word that the author intended (but forgot) to insert via search-and-replace?
It was a technical problem. The article has been fixed to appear as it was originally intended to appear. For reference, the instances of "h3" were supposed to be "strong."
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Kyle Niedzwiecki
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Anonymous
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A clearer and more informative piece than I would have thought it was possible to write on this topic. Thank you very much, Mr. Davenport.
I wonder what you'd say about Vance,s 'PAO, which, among its many
virtues, I might number a nice anticipation of Bickerton.
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Punning Linguist
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I'm glad you enjoyed it. Unfortunately, there's so much science fiction out there that I hadn't even heard of Jack Vance until a few years ago, and I haven't read PAO. If it anticipates Binkerton's work on creole languages, I would certainly be interested in reading it. -Tristan
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