Talk:The Languages of Pao
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[edit] Unsourced commentary & critique
While the evaluative comments in the "Commentary" and "Sapir-Whorf" sections may have merit, they appear here as personal reactions to the book rather than as reports of outside critics' opinions. Vance's use of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is certainly one of the book's claims to fame, and linguists and literary critics may have arrived at some consensus as to its effectiveness in the novel--but that's not what we get here. Given that, I'd suggest either reframing/revising these sections or dropping them. RLetson 00:12, 15 August 2006 (UTC)