"Dan Cline" <paul_leto@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
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> I can imagine Agatha Christie's doing internal monologs. " I wonder if
> they will ever figure out that I killed the heir to the Flanagan
> fortune?" I don't think that would work in most mystery novels.
>
Hi Dan and Em,
I agree that there are other good ways to depict thinking in novels. On a
related note, here's what Wikipedia had to say about the Sapir-Whorf
hypothesis and Dune:
"In Frank Herbert's science fiction novel Dune and its sequels, the
Principle of Linguistic Relativity first appears when a character (Lady
Jessica) with extensive linguistic training encounters a foreign tribe
(the
Fremen). She is shocked by the "violence" of their language, as she
believes
their word choices and language structure reflect a culture of enormous
violence. Similarly, earlier in the novel, her late husband, Duke Leto,
muses on how the nature of Imperial society is betrayed by "the precise
delineations for treacherous death" in its language - the use of highly
specific terms to describe different methods for delivering poison."
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