Bruce Alford
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Scott Hawkins:
I tell everyone that I can about this book. You're extremely creative. By the way, The Arrival (The Movie) also deals the Sapir-Worf hypothesis. Oh, here's a question: did you get a literary agent?
Scott Hawkins
I did get a literary agent, and it was no joke the best day of my life. The way to truly appreciate a success is to fail at the same thing for thirty years.
I bet Sapir-Worf is very much present in the undermind of a lot of computer geeks of a certain age. Around the time I was an undergrad there was a Vernor Vinge short story titled "True Names and Other Dangers" that tied into Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea stuff and some terms used in academic study of computer science/natural language processing. I probably wasn't the only one who had a light bulb go off when they first heard Sapir Worf.
I bet Sapir-Worf is very much present in the undermind of a lot of computer geeks of a certain age. Around the time I was an undergrad there was a Vernor Vinge short story titled "True Names and Other Dangers" that tied into Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea stuff and some terms used in academic study of computer science/natural language processing. I probably wasn't the only one who had a light bulb go off when they first heard Sapir Worf.
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