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Re: A writer's question about lingual shift
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December 17, 2009, 08:00:59 PM »
Quote from: Shecky on December 17, 2009, 07:54:58 PM
'Splainy.
Sorry, a Hyperion Cantos allusion. There is one chapter where the John Keats cybrid is pestering the AI Ummon for page after page of Zen koan response. Only to have the whole thing end in one 'GWADZ!' datasquirt of amused bathos.
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Re: A writer's question about lingual shift
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December 17, 2009, 08:31:23 PM »
Don't forget that governments have tried to use the "eradicate the language to eradicate the culture" card. Language is power!
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