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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mas.to/users/vrandecic/statuses/111401183512449571">Denny Vrandečić (vrandecic@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2023 13:05:16 JST</a><a href="https://mas.to/@vrandecic" title="vrandecic@mas.to"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/39886-48-20240623152210.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Denny Vrandečić" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Denny Vrandečić</a></section><article><p>Strong recommendation for "Babel" by R.F. Kuang. It's a speculative fiction story set in 1830s Oxford with an, as far as I can tell, novel premise: one can cast spells (although they don't call it spells but it's just science in this world) by using two words that translate into each other, and the semantic difference between the two words - because no translation is perfect - is the effect of the spell.</p><p>1/4</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/babel" rel="tag">#babel</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/rfkuang" rel="tag">#rfkuang</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/speculativefiction" rel="tag">#speculativefiction</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/books" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/bookstodon" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2319508#notice-4577680">In conversation</a><time datetime="2023-11-13T13:05:16+09:00" title="Monday, 13-Nov-2023 13:05:16 JST">Monday, 13-Nov-2023 13:05:16 JST</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mas.to/@vrandecic/111401183512449571" rel="external" title="Sent from mas.to via ActivityPub">mas.to</a></span></span><a href="https://mas.to/@vrandecic/111401183512449571">permalink</a></footer></blockquote>

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Denny Vrandečić (vrandecic@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2023 13:05:16 JST Denny Vrandečić
Strong recommendation for "Babel" by R.F. Kuang. It's a speculative fiction story set in 1830s Oxford with an, as far as I can tell, novel premise: one can cast spells (although they don't call it spells but it's just science in this world) by using two words that translate into each other, and the semantic difference between the two words - because no translation is perfect - is the effect of the spell.
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