Home / SFF Linguistics SFF Linguistics Column SFF Linguistics “Translation is defying a curse laid by God”: R.F. Kuang’s Babel and the Colonialist Origins of Linguistics By CD Covington February 15, 2023 Blog SFF Linguistics On Tolkien, Translation, Linguistics, and the Languages of Middle-earth By CD Covington May 11, 2022 Comment number: 24 Blog SFF Linguistics Slang, Accents, and Linguistic Worldbuilding in Lara Elena Donnelly’s Amberlough By CD Covington April 5, 2022 Comment number: 5 Blog SFF Linguistics Glitching Reality With Power Morphemes: Battle of the Linguist Mages By CD Covington March 4, 2022 Comment number: 7 Blog SFF Linguistics The Tricky Art of Translation and Maria Dahvana Headley’s Modern Beowulf By CD Covington February 7, 2022 Comment number: 23 Blog SFF Linguistics Were We Wrong All Along? Interspecies Relations in CJ Cherryh’s Foreigner Series By CD Covington July 26, 2021 Comment number: 5 Blog SFF Linguistics The Kyo Come to Visit: Clearing Up Some Important Questions in CJ Cherryh’s Foreigner Series By CD Covington June 21, 2021 Comment number: 10 Blog SFF Linguistics Bridges Go in Both Directions: Humans and Atevi in CJ Cherryh’s Foreigner Series By CD Covington April 29, 2021 Comment number: 5 Blog SFF Linguistics Who Gets to Be People? Encountering the Alien in A Desolation Called Peace By CD Covington March 30, 2021 Comment number: 7 Blog SFF Linguistics Disruptions in Communication Disrupt Atevi Society in CJ Cherryh’s Foreigner Series By CD Covington February 17, 2021 Comment number: 1 Blog news Look Up That SF Term in the New Online Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction By Andrew Liptak January 26, 2021 Comment number: 8 Blog SFF Linguistics Building a Bridge Between Cultures in CJ Cherryh’s Foreigner Series By CD Covington January 25, 2021 Comment number: 4 1 2 3
