It is our intent and purpose to foster and encourage in-depth discussion about all things related to books, authors, genres or publishing in a safe, supportive environment. Subreddit Rules - Message the mods - Related Subs AMA Info The FAQ The Wiki Join in the Weekly 'What Are You Reading?' Thread!.Check out the Weekly Recommendation Thread.Fri at 12pm, Alexander Darwin Author of The Combat Codes.Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy discipline, and a large number of its practitioners spend too many nights drowning their problems in Ouisghian Zodahs. Young structural linguists get deeply excited about it and stay up late at night convinced that they are very close to something of profound importance, and end up becoming old structural linguists before their time, getting very angry with the young ones. Old structural linguists get very angry when young structural linguists go on about it. As far as any theory of structural linguistics is concerned it is right off the graph, and yet it persists. What can be made of this fact? It exists in total isolation. The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian ‘chinanto/mnigs’ which is ordinary water served at slightly above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan ‘tzjin-anthony-ks’ which kill cows at a hundred paces and in fact the one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds. It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85% of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N’N-T’N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand or more variations on the same phonetic theme. This bit, in particular, made me chuckle: His first theory was that if human beings didn’t keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up.Īfter a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this–“If human beings don’t keep exercising their lips, their brains start working. It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in “It’s a nice day,” or “You’re very tall,” or “So this is it, we’re going to die.” Some of the gags were repeats from the first book. I struggled through it, speed-reading until the very end. The second in the series, the first book, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, is a bit easier to read. Yesterday morning I sat down and got into it. I hadn’t read The Restaurant at the End of the Universe in years.

Restaurant at end of the universe