Offer: Fiction critique from a linguistic perspective

[ellen_fremedon]

Offer: I will read your story or novel extract of up to 20,000 words (including any notes), OR your notes alone up to 10,000 words, and provide a thorough critique from a linguistic standpoint, covering the structure of any invented languages, the linguistic history and language contact situation of your world, and the social ins-and-outs of

Comments

[mojavedragonfly]

Hittite? Wow. How cool that is.

[ellen_fremedon]

:-) That one was just a single semester of Structure Of; you can't really go farther than that without learning cuneiform. But it was very, very cool.

[mojavedragonfly]

Awesome. I always wanted to be the person in the movie, who, when the group goes into the scary tomb, says, "Stand aside. That's Babylonian on the wall. I can read this."

But, cuneiform? Ouch.

[chiave_trust]

But Sanskrit is just awesome, I'll have to say. (I've been trying to see how I could learn that, which is proving to be a slight bit difficult.)

I'd bid, but I tend to use Japanese and other such languages, so I'm not sure what I'd use it for x.x

[ellen_fremedon]

Yeah, I'm afraid you'll have to ask someone else for advice with real languages. :-D

[chiave_trust]

And thanks to you and the Hittite comment I want to read Snow Crash again. XD