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linguistics
“Evil Earth”: Linguistic Worldbuilding in N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy
“Mind records are the one true forever”: Translation and Dead Languages in Marie Brennan’s Turning Darkness Into Light
A Prank on the Emperor? Names and Vocabulary in The Goblin Emperor
“Such a relief, to have a language with the right words”: Native Tongue and Women’s Language
Expressing Culture Through Language in A Memory Called Empire
Lang Belta: The Language of The Expanse
Predators, Prey, Honor: Linguistic Worldbuilding in C.J. Cherryh’s Hunter of Worlds
The Signifier and the Signified: Semiotics and China Miéville’s Embassytown
Good Fiction, Questionable Science: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
QUILTBAG+ Speculative Classics: Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
That Was Awesome! Writers on Writing
Let Me Talk to the Aliens! Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life”
The First Full Arrival Trailer Reveals the Aliens and Their Language
7 Different Ways Fantasy Has Used Language as Magic
“What Happens Now?” “They Arrive.” Watch the Arrival Teaser Trailer
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