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6 Reddit comments about Embassytown: A Novel:

u/ebooksgirl · 4 pointsr/booksuggestions

I haven't liked anything else he's written, but Embassytown was amazing.

u/shhimhuntingrabbits · 3 pointsr/rva

I'm cool with O'Tooles! I liked that place. The other China Mieville book we were talking about is Embassytown about human colonists living on a world with aliens that can only speak to genetically engineered pairs of twins, and who never discovered how to lie. Lots of cool ideas about biotechnology and what language can mean.

u/crinkleintime · 3 pointsr/printSF

Embassytown by China Mieville is a recent one in which humans co-exist with the native sentient aliens on another planet. The mode of communication and interactions between the two species is unlike any book I've read, I'd really recommend it.

http://www.amazon.com/Embassytown-China-Mieville/dp/0345524500

u/Yoshokatana · 1 pointr/todayilearned

Oh shit, I've never seen that episode. Could it have been the basis for China Mieville's Embassytown? There's a similar theme of "aliens creating metaphors to enhance their language."

u/nonesuch42 · 1 pointr/linguistics

I'm fairly certain all languages (even unwritten ones) have stuff like metaphor. That's basically the premise of Lakoff's Metaphors We Live By. And all languages have idioms/euphemisms as well (look at how people talk about death, bodily functions). One possible exception for a lot of things is ASL, which is notorious for avoiding euphemism (though this may be a feature of Deaf culture, not the language). ASL does have idioms etc. though.

A language without figures of speech. This sounds like a good scifi premise. Actually, it sounds a lot like China Mieville's Embassytown.