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“Mind records are the one true forever”: Translation and Dead Languages in Marie Brennan’s Turning Darkness Into Light

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Glitching Reality With Power Morphemes: Battle of the Linguist Mages

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“Evil Earth”: Linguistic Worldbuilding in N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy

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“Mind records are the one true forever”: Translation and Dead Languages in Marie Brennan’s Turning Darkness Into Light

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A Prank on the Emperor? Names and Vocabulary in The Goblin Emperor

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“Such a relief, to have a language with the right words”: Native Tongue and Women’s Language

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Expressing Culture Through Language in A Memory Called Empire

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Lang Belta: The Language of The Expanse

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Predators, Prey, Honor: Linguistic Worldbuilding in C.J. Cherryh’s Hunter of Worlds

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The Signifier and the Signified: Semiotics and China Miéville’s Embassytown

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Good Fiction, Questionable Science: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

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QUILTBAG+ Speculative Classics: Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany

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Let Me Talk to the Aliens! Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life”

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“There is an art to smiling in a way that others will believe. It is always important to include the eyes; otherwise, people will know you hate them.”

N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

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