Herbert Gladstone Puns

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

Hello beautiful people of r/fantasy. I have been lucky enough to read 72 books so far in 2021, most of them in the SFF genre, which is by far a personal best for me. I should actually be able to make it up to 74 as I am more than midway through Dune Messiah (Frank Herbert) and Moving Pictures (Terry Pratchett), but since I do not see either of those two books cracking into my top 10, I figured I could start writing about the best books I have read this year and share with you all 10 mini reviews of the 10 best books I have read in 2021, because like so many others, I just need to talk about it! I would love to read your thoughts on what I read this year.

Most of them are fantasy, although two out of the ten would probably be better described as sci-fi but with enough fantasy elements to them that I figure they can count as is. I will try to keep my reviews as spoiler free as possible and will mark any spoilers with the proper tags.

First, a few honorable mentions that just missed the cut for me but I still found to be fantastic reads that I cannot recommend enough: 11/22/63 by Stephen King, The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter, Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett, Tiamat's Wrath by James A Corey, Watchmen by Allan Moore and Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence. In a few of those cases, you will find other books from the same series listed bellow. So with that being said, let's begin!

10. NEMESIS GAMES (The Expense #5) by James A Corey

I read Leviathan Wakes, the first book of the series, at the end of last year and upon finding out that the conclusion Leviathan Fall was due for the spring of 2021, I have spent most of the year pacing myself and reading about one book every month to be caught up for the release of the finale. This series isn't what I would call ground breaking. It doesn't reinvent the wheel and plays on a trope that has been well established, that of humanity tearing itself apart while a bigger world-ending threat is looming in the background, but it does what it does extremely well. The characters are interesting and fun to follow and all of the books are at the very least firmly planted in the "entertaining as hell" category for me. Nemesis Games is the middle book in this 9-books series and is, to my taste at least, the very best one. This book follows the crew of the Rocinante as they are split apart for significant amount of time for the first time in the series, which gives some of Jim Holden's friends

So last year I set myself a goal to read more and was really happy I read a book a month for 2020. I wrote about my feelings here, I really enjoyed it and got positive feedback so I decided to do the same thing again...

At some point it got a little out of control and I ended up reading 52 books this year, at first I wanted to finish all the pre 1990 Hugo award winners, then it kind of snow balled. Anyway I've ranked them so you can disagree or call me an idiot, it's more fun that way. Let me know why I'm wrong in the comments:

1. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman: Follows a Draftee in a future war and the way the world changes while they are gone.  I originally read this fifteen years ago when I first got into Science Fiction and remember really liking it, but I’d genuinely forgotten quite how good it was.  Not just the metaphor for the world changing while you’re at war, but how dangerous he makes space feel.  It is cold and inhospitable and when combined with the battles which he survives mostly, because of sheer dumb luck you get a beautiful critique of war that only a veteran could have written.  I will say I was jarred by a scene involving consent and a drunk Lesbian that horrified and yet I barely remember when I first read about it, I think it shows more how society has got better at this stuff and how much better I understand it.  That said, if it’s been a while since you read this, like me, why not give it another shot?

2. Player of Games by Iain Banks: A Master Game Player takes part in a strange alien tournament.  I read a few of Banks’ non-SF novels in my early 20s and enjoyed him, but I walked into Culture wanting to hate it.  I think it was r/printsf’s obsession with him and the fact every time someone asks for a suggestion it goes to the top of the list regardless of what the person has asked for.  This novel though is superb, focused and character driven and willing to present a utopia as is, warts and all so you can adore it or critique it and are free to either without being hit in the face by the views of the author.

3. Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold: A space station full of genetically modified workers has now become redundant.  This was the first book I’d ever read of hers and I was so blown away by the style.  I can see why the Vorkogian Saga is so often recommended on here.  She gives us real characters and a fast-paced heist p

Hello everyone! You posted your list of top 10 favorite books or series and we have (finally) completed the list. This list includes all entries with 5 or more votes.

• Voting thread.
• Full list can be found here along with the cleaned up data set if anyone is ambitious.
• 2019 poll results

This year had nearly 941 individual votes with nearly 9000 total votes. That's about twice as many votes as we had in 2019! There are about 1100 series on the full list.

Special thanks to the other mods for helping out, especially u/Dianthaa, u/cubansombrero, and u/Cassandra_Sanguine as I could not have finished this without them.

TL;DR at the bottom.

Firstly a little bit of background. I've always been an SF fan, but I'm only now getting into what I'd consider Classic SF. That changed this year when I read the six Frank Herbert Dune novels back-to-back and adored them. Naturally I wanted to find more of the same so I took to reddit, searching for science fiction novels similar to Dune. I saw the name Hyperion several times and decided to give it a go.

What I was left with was an experience I've rarely had reading books, the combined breadth and variety of the series kept it endlessly refreshing and engaging, and the thoughts I have are myriad. To make it more digestible I want to go book-by-book and throw down some thoughts and highlights.

I - Hyperion

The jumping off point, and a fantastically-designed jumping off point at that. Having the novels format primarily take the form of shorter, almost standalone novellas was maybe the best way I could have been prepared for Simmons' writing in the next three books and an incredible way to introduce the major players.

Lenar's (or Dure's) story has to be the standout for me. Unsettling, slow-burning revelation in the vein of HP Lovecraft that enthralled me from beginning to end, and now it gets bonus points in retrospect for introducing the Cruciform, in itself one of the biggest players of the series. But that's not to say the other stories don't match up. In their own way, each is striking and memorable, from Brawne and Johnny's neo-noir adventure and ultimately romance, to the love-across-time of both Kassad and Moneta and also Meric and Siri, each one held something that drew me back to it in my mind again and again.

II - The End of Hyperion

Of the four, this is the book I felt the most unsure about after reading. While it's a broadening and deepening of the first book to be sure it came in a way that was jarring to me, having gotten used to the novella format of the first. What it did introduce was wonderful, however. Further exploration of the Hegemony's inner workings through Severn and his proximity to figures like Meina Gladstone and Albedo. A deepening of the lore surrounding the technocore, and a truly grand finale that changes everything.

What made me ultimately unsure was saying goodbye to so many characters that I had quickly come to love over the course of the duology. It was made clear that I wouldn't see most of these characters again, and for that the final

I previously identified two distinct clusters of voters in the 2021 Top Novels poll.

I selected 234 people who voted for at least two of the books in Cluster 2 (shown below) and tallied their votes separately to arrive at this list. If your tastes didn't quite match the official poll, this list might be more helpful for picking reads.

The Cluster 2 books (italicised) are (slightly) artificially inflated because I selected people who voted for them. But there are 20 books on the list and people only needed to vote for 2 to be included, so it didn't seem fair to exclude them either.

Administrative Note: Ever since I discovered the r/Fantasy Bingo in its second year (2016), I’ve been obsessed with figuring out how often books or authors were read for people’s cards or for each square. (I even went back and figured out the stats for the very first one, though I never posted it.) However, as the subreddit grows, the number of people participating has also grown, and I’m afraid these posts take me longer and longer to do, so this will be my last Bingo Statistics post.

My past Bingo Stats posts:

• 2016 Bingo Statistics
• 2017 Bingo Statistics
• 2018 Bingo Statistics
• 2019 Bingo Statistics

PRELIMINARY NOTES

Before I get to the numbers, here are some caveats:

1. I don’t decide who gets a successful bingo (that’s /u/lrich1024!), so when assembling this information, I don’t question a book you may have read or where you placed it on your card.
2. To make it easier for my analysis, I did one book per square (except for short stories). If you submitted a series or omnibus title, I took only the first book (I didn’t do this in a couple minor cases, however). If you said you read Heartstrikers by Rachel Aaron, for example, I wrote down that you read Nice Dragons Finish Last so I could compare you against others who read only the first book.
3. Graphic Novels, Light Novels, and Webserials: I find it more useful to compare these specific series against each other instead of by issue or volume, so the person who read Monstress Volume 1 was compared with one who read Monstress Volume 3.
4. I attempted a gender breakdown, but I may be wrong! I said female/male/nonbinary/other based on the pronoun the authors preferred (author bios were useful in this regard), but sometimes I guessed. In a few rare occasions, I couldn't find evidence either way and left it alone. If you notice an error on my part, please let me know.
5. If you want to see the raw data, please click this link. I don’t include anyone’s username on this sheet. Books and stories that were only read once are highlighted read, but the f

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.

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

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

I'm looking for suggestions of books that can take me away to expansive, rich world's where there's a lot going on many things to read about. I keep coming back to most of these and re-reading them, and I keep wanting to read more contemporary fantasy books. Here are some of the books I've read;

Those with * I've started but not finished

Rivers of London by Ben aaronovitch

The first law by Joe Abercrombie *

Rogue angel 1-4 by Alex Archer

Eric Carter series by Stephen blackmoore

Faerie wars series by herbie Brennan

The demon cycle series by Peter v Brett

All of Dan Browns books

Dresden files by Jim butcher

Black magician trilogy and traitor spy trilogy by Trudi Canavan

Enders game by Orson Scott card

The devil you know by Mike Carey*

The umber series by pw catanese

The heir chronicles by cinda Williams chima

Rainbow six by Tom Clancy

Mortal instruments 1-3 by Cassandra Clare

The hunger games by Suzanne Collins

Demon accords by John conroe

Several of the Sharpe's books by Bernard Cornwell

Monster Hunter international series by Larry correia

Several of the dirk Pitt series by Clive Cussler

Elemental assassin series books 1-6 by Jennifer estep

Hush hush by becca Fitzpatrick *

Balance by m r Forbes

Paladin prophecy 1-2 by Mark frost

American gods by Neil gaiman*

Beautiful creatures series by kami Garcia

Three parts dead by max Gladstone*

Jumper series by Steven Gould

Night side series and secret histories series by Simon r green

Several in the stainless steel rat series by Harry Harrison

All except the last iron druid chronicles by Kevin hearne

Dune and children of Dune by Frank Herbert

Magic ex libris 1-3 by Jim c hines*

Alex rider series by Anthony Horowitz

Gatekeepers 1-4 by Anthony Horowitz

Jane yellow rock 1-5 by faith Hunter

Alex verus 1-5 by Benedict jackal

Charming by Elliot James*

Sandman slim 1-8 by Richard kadrey

Good intentions 1-3 by Elliot Kay

Vegas fae by Tom Keller

Chronicles of nick by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Dark Hunter series 1-9 by Sherrilyn Kenyon

One flew over the cuckoos nest by Ken Kesey

The gunslinger by Stephen King*

Lorien legacies 1-3 by pittacus lore

Song of fire and ice 1-2 by George r r Martin*

Hellequin chronicles 1-4 by Steve mchugh

Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer

Noble warriors series by William Nicholson

The rook by David o'malley*

Inheritance cycle by Christopher Paolini

The nights watch, moist and death arcs of disc world by terry pratchett

All of rick Riorda

Mentos

(I will see myself out)

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.

He lost May

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

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.

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?

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!

He’s the new temp.

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

And boy are my arms legs.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

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

They’re on standbi

BamBOO!

A play on words.

Calcium, nickel, neon

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

But let me give it a shot.

Amy