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 24 Blog SFF Linguistics Slang, Accents, and Linguistic Worldbuilding in Lara Elena Donnelly’s Amberlough By CD Covington April 5, 2022 Comment 5 Blog SFF Linguistics Glitching Reality With Power Morphemes: Battle of the Linguist Mages By CD Covington March 4, 2022 Comment 7 Blog SFF Linguistics The Tricky Art of Translation and Maria Dahvana Headley’s Modern Beowulf By CD Covington February 7, 2022 Comment 22 Blog SFF Linguistics Were We Wrong All Along? Interspecies Relations in CJ Cherryh’s Foreigner Series By CD Covington July 26, 2021 Comment 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 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 5 Blog SFF Linguistics Who Gets to Be People? Encountering the Alien in A Desolation Called Peace By CD Covington March 30, 2021 Comment 7 Blog SFF Linguistics Disruptions in Communication Disrupt Atevi Society in CJ Cherryh’s Foreigner Series By CD Covington February 17, 2021 Comment 1 Blog news Look Up That SF Term in the New Online Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction By Andrew Liptak January 26, 2021 Comment 8 Blog SFF Linguistics Building a Bridge Between Cultures in CJ Cherryh’s Foreigner Series By CD Covington January 25, 2021 Comment 4 icon-chervon-left 1 2 3 icon-chervon-right