Embassytown

- MINOR SPOILER ALERT ABOUT THE LANGUAGE ASPECT -

As a linguist, I must say that one of the basic linguistic premises of the book - that a race of aliens can't use metaphors/signifiers (or even think about the concept of the content of the metaphor) unless they refer to things that happened in reality first - is totally unbelievable from a linguistic point of view.

There are a number of reasons for this (...)

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