Here's a list of books, stories, and essays involving linguistics, language, and communication, taken from the comments for 5 reddit posts asking of books involving linguistics (including one post from r/linguistics), a Goodreads list, this list from a linguistic (includes lots of great nonfiction resources as well), and from the sf-encyclopedia on linguistics. Here are links to Wikipedia's articles for linguistic relativity (the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, although this is considered a basically disproven hypothesis) and conceptual metaphor (largely championed by George Lakoff; see Metaphors We Live By). Both are pretty relevant for fiction that explores how language might shape our thinking.

The list is organized by how frequently an author or work was mentioned from my 8 sources. I proceed each with how many they were mentioned in, so that number should roughly reflect how relevant an author or work is to the linguistics theme and how popular the work is. I've included basically everything mentioned, since I haven't read most of these, so that does mean some of them may only be loosely related to linguistics, or just do something that's interesting with language. I've included comments with the ones I have read on how much it actually incorporates linguistics.

• 8: Ted Chiang
  • 8: Story of your Life (short story)
    • An iconic story, this is what's generally given as an example in the Reddit posts for what's being looked for. Also the basis for the movie Arrival.
  • 72 Letters (short story)
    • A little bit of a stretch, perhaps. Written names animate golems, with the name determining their attributes.
  • The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling
    • About communication methods and memory, such as speech verse writing, so very relevant depending on how loosely you take the linguistic theme.
• 8: Suzette Haden-Elgin (Linguist)
  • 8: Native Tongue Series
    • Includes a dictionary created for the women's language: https://laadanlanguage.com/
  • Coyoted Jones series
  • The Ozark Trilogy
  • The Judas Rose
  • Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense series (nonfiction)
• 7: China Mieville
  • 7: Embassytown
  • The Scar (book 2 of the Bas-Lag series)
• 7: Sam

#The NewToReddit Encyclopaedia Hunt!

#New! With clues to all the quotes!

I’ve slightly altered 26 literary quotes from 20 famous authors and hidden them in some entries in our encyclopaedia! The quotes you need to find are hidden somewhere in the descriptive text of the entries, from books by the authors listed below. Any other quotes, partial quotes or Snowclones you might find from other authors not on the list below (e.g. “I regret that I have but one upvote to give.") don’t form part of this competition :)

• Douglas Adams 3
• Margaret Atwood 2
• Ray Bradbury 1
• Anthony Burgess 1
• Lewis Carroll 1
• Paulo Coelho 1
• Charles Dickens 2
• F. Scott Fitzgerald 1
• Dave Eggers 1
• Thomas Hardy 1
• L.P. Hartley 1
• Joseph Heller 2
• Frank Herbert 1
• Robert Ludlum 1
• Sir Isaac Newton 1
• George Orwell 1
• Boris Pasternak 1
• J. D. Salinger 1
• Brandon Sanderson 1
• J.R.R. Tolkien 2

Each quote is at least eight words long and all are easily googleable. The slight alterations I’ve made on some of them are the addition or replacement of literally either one or two words to relate the quotes to Reddit or Redditors. Some are easier to find than others, and one entry has two quotes to find.

There are 26 to find in all and more you find, the bigger the prize!

Example and Answer Format

To start you off, under the entry for New Reddit; Old Reddit you’ll see: “The story so far: in the beginning, Reddit was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” which is (mostly) from Douglas Adams: ‘The Restaurant at the End of the Universe’.

How to Answer

Now, ONLY comment under this post the number you’ve found so far. If you find more, you can edit the comment with the new number. There’s no limit on how many times you can edit the comment.

So, the only answer I’m looking for now is “1” which you’ll edit to “2”, “3” etc as you find more.

Don’t post your complete answers until you’re asked!

You’ll need to make notes somewhere, as the answer I’ll be looking for eventually is “N

EDIT II: THE LIST IS DONE, COMPLETED AT THE BOTTOM

• 1900: Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad**
• 1901:
• 1902:
• 1903:
• 1904:
• 1905:
• 1906: The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
• 1907: The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
• 1908:
• 1909:
• 1910:
• 1911: Under Western Eyes, Joseph Conrad
• 1912: The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle
• 1913:
• 1914: Dubliners, James Joyce
• 1915: The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka**
• 1916: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce**
• 1917:
• 1918:
• 1919:
• 1920:
• 1921: We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
• 1922: Ulysses, James Joyce
• 1923:
• 1924:
• 1925: The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• 1926: The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
• 1927: Amerika, Franz Kafka
• 1928: Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley
• 1929: The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner***
• 1930:
• 1931:
• 1932: Light in August, William Faulkner
• 1933: The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett
• 1934:
• 1935: It Can’t Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis**
• 1936: Eyeless in Gaza, Aldous Huxley
• 1937: Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck*, **
• 1938:
• 1939: The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
• 1940: For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway***
• 1941:
• 1942:
• 1943: The Lady in the Lake, Raymond Chandler
• 1944:
• 1945:
• 1946: The Honjin Murders, Seishi Yokomizo
• 1947: The Plague, Albert Camus
• 1948: No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai
• 1949: Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell*
• 1950:
• 1951: The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
• 1952: The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway**
• 1953: Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
• 1954: The Fellowship of the Ring & The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien**
• 1955: The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien**
• 1956: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Yukio Mishima
• 1957:
• 1958: Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, Kenzaburō Ōe
• 1959: The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut
• 1960: To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, or/and The Violent Bear It Away, Flannery O’Connor**
• 1961: Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger***
• 1962: A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
• 1963: Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
• 1964: Dune, Frank Herbert
• 1965:
• 1966: The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon**
• 1967:
• 1968:
• 1969: Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert
• 1970: The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison**
• 1971:
• 1972:
• 1973: Child of God, Cormac McCarthy*
• 1974:
• 1975:
• 1976: Children of Dune, Frank Herbert
• 1977:
• 1978: The Stand, Stephen King
• 1979: Suttree, Cormac McCarthy*
• 1980:
• 1981: God Emperor of Dune, Frank Herbert
• 1982: Fevre Dream, George R.R. Martin
• 1983:
• 1984: Heretics of Dune, Fr

2022 Pre-Season Update - Geelong Cats

There has been some experience that has left the Geelong Cats VFL program over the off-season and it will see them have a much more inexperienced side in 2022. The club will look to have another successful season after finishing in the top four in the incomplete 2021 season and will try to build on their seven-win season with their only losses being at the hands of the Casey Demons and Footscray Bulldogs.

Competition Updates

The Victorian Football League will return for the 2022 season on March the 26th and will continue to align closely with the Australian Football League Men's season for a 22 round season with each team taking 4 byes each. The Aspley Hornets are the only team to confirm their exit from the eastern coast competition with the remaining 21 clubs beginning to strengthen their sides for another run.

The salary cap has been increased by $20,000 for standalone teams to $220,000 while AFL and AFL-aligned clubs have received just a $10,000 boost to $110,000. The caps also introduce the ability to pay $10,000 of a playing coach's salary outside the cap while indigenous coaches implement a $5,000 concession.

The list size rules also remain pretty much identical to the 2021 rules with AFL affiliate clubs having a maximum of 30 players (15 development players, 15 primary listed players) while stand-alone clubs can have a total of 40 players on their lists (28 primary listed players, 12 development players).

Outgoing Players

Multi-year captain for the Geelong Cats and former AFL listed player, Aaron Black, called time on his VFL career after the 2021 season failed to return and will join Darcy Lang, who has decided to return home in a playing coaching role, and promising youngster Nicholas Burke (Port Melbourne) in big outs for the Geelong based side.

Black was ever so reliable for Geelong's defensive unit in 2021 but his impact came through his leadership and years of AFL experience with 57 senior games behind him and now over 100 VFL games, similarly, Lang's 64 senior games of experience for Geelong and Carlton will be missing in the new season but he was able to make a huge impact with ball in hand averaging 20 disposals over eight games and included a five-goal tally and 26 disposals in round 12 against Essendon.

Jackson Thurlow could also join the list of big out’s, in what would be shattering to the Cats, as conversations are held with Launceston Football Club in the TSL. There has

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

SFF here means all speculative fiction (fantasy, science fiction, horror, alternate history, magical realism etc).

The following SFF books will be published in the U.S. September 2021. Other countries may differ.

If you know of others, please add them as comments below. If I've made any mistakes, just let me know, and I'll fix them up.

If you are using the Chrome browser, you might find the Goodreads Right Click extension useful, to find out more information on books that you are interested in.

September 1

• Archibald Lox and the Rubicon Dictate (Archibald Lox 6) - Darren Shan
• Constance - Matthew FitzSimmons (#CE)
• Forbidden Zone (The System Apocalypse 11) - Tao Wong
• Oil and Dust (The Elemental Artist 1) - Jami Fairleigh

September 2

• The Nature of Middle-earth - J.R.R. Tolkien, Carl F Hostetter

September 6

• An Emperor’s Gamble (Legend of Tal 3) - J.D.L. Rosell

September 7

• 1637: Dr. Gribbleflotz and the Soul of Stoner (Ring of Fire 33) - Kerryn Offord, Rick Boatright
• A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix (Remixed Classics 1) - C.B. Lee
• Among Thieves - M.J. Kuhn
• Awakened - Ciara Duggan
• Certain Dark Things - Silvia Moreno-Garcia (re-release)
• Dark and Shallow Lies - Ginny Myers Sain (#CE)
• Forgotten in Death (Eve Dallas 53) - J. D. Robb
• He Who Fights with Monsters 3 - Shirtaloon
• Jekyll & Hyde Inc. - Simon R. Green
• Lady's Ransom (First Argentines 3) - Jeff Wheeler
• No Gods, No Monsters (Convergence Saga 1) - Cadwell Turnbull
• The All-Consuming World - Cassandra Khaw
• The Art of Space Travel and Other Stories - Nina Allan
• The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Six - Neil Clarke (pushed back until 23rd Nov 2021)
• The Bones of Ruin - Sarah Raughley
• The Buried - Melissa Grey
• The Haunting of Leigh Harker - Darcy Coates (#CE)
• The Hawthorne Legacy (Inheritance Games 2) - Jennifer Lynn Barnes
• The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina - Zoraida Córdova
• The Last Legacy - Adrienne Young
• The Peculiarities - David Liss
• The Sculptor - Michael Aronovitz
• The Splinter King: (God-King Chronicles 2) - Mike Brooks
• The Tempered Steel of Antiquity Grey - Shawn Speakman
• Tides of Mutiny - Rebecca Rofe (#CE)
• What Once Was Mine: A Twisted Tale (A Twisted Tale 12) - Liz Braswell
• Your Life Has Been Delayed - Michelle I. Mason

September 13

• Daughter of the Yellow Dragon (Fractured Emp

The nurse asked the rabbit, “what is your blood type?”

“I am probably a type O” said the rabbit.

The doctor says it terminal.

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

He lost May

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Said if she ever hosts a gender reveal party, when it comes time to pop the balloon she'll spray everyone with water.

Gender is fluid.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

And boy are my arms legs.

Put it on my bill

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

A play on words.

Calcium, nickel, neon

My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.

Pilot on me!!

Until he discovered it was extra sharp.

Christopher Walken

Amy