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From: rrhorton@concentric.net (Rich Horton) Subject: (urth) Frog Name Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 03:27:41 GMT 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) -- Rich Horton | rrhorton@concentric.net Web Page: www.sff.net/people/richard.horton (New reviews of _Halfway Human_ and _The Star Fraction_ and _Deepdrive_.) *More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.urth.net/urth/