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Three Helpful SF-Related Rules of Thumb, According to Me

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Three Helpful SF-Related Rules of Thumb, According to Me

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SFF Linguistics

“Translation is defying a curse laid by God”: R.F. Kuang’s Babel and the Colonialist Origins of Linguistics

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Fairy Tales

Five Life Lessons From Ella Enchanted on the Novel’s 25th Anniversary

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SFF Linguistics

On Tolkien, Translation, Linguistics, and the Languages of Middle-earth

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SFF Linguistics

Slang, Accents, and Linguistic Worldbuilding in Lara Elena Donnelly’s Amberlough

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SFF Linguistics

Glitching Reality With Power Morphemes: Battle of the Linguist Mages

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Cover of William Gibson's Neuromancer
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Neuromancer

William Gibson’s Neuromancer: Does the Edge Still Bleed?

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SFF Linguistics

The Tricky Art of Translation and Maria Dahvana Headley’s Modern Beowulf

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Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka
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book reviews

How Language and Storytelling Shape Reality in Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka

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Star Trek IV The Voyage Home, Kirk and Spock
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Close Reads

The Best Moment in All of Star Trek Is About the Trash We Don’t Appreciate

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languages

From Pravic to Palp-Semaphore: Seven Ingenious Languages in Speculative Fiction

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Close Reads

The Construction of Language in Riddley Walker

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“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”

C.S. Lewis, The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader

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