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Conlangery SPECIAL #2: Too Like the Lightning

Conlangery Podcast

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The Importance of English in Science Fiction

The book is narrated by Mycroft. And he is a servicer which is a convict who has been sentenced to a life of permanent, permanent public service so that he travels around every day doing odd jobs for anybody who asks him to and then gets food in return. So that's interesting. Another interesting thing and useful to the reader is having Mycroft as the narrator is that he knows lots of languages. Yes he is a heptaglot. I didn't think to count how many he actually knew. But one thing that you do is when the people are speaking Japanese say you use the conventions of Japanese punctuation or the same thing with Spanish it's simply oh they are inverted punct

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