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From: eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond)
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Subject: Re: General Semantics
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Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 12:33:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  1 12:33:00 1987
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In article <4063@oliveb.UUCP>, trash@oliveb.UUCP (Tom Repa) writes:
> 	All right, I'll bite. How about some good references for 
> me to read up on General Semantics?

The definitive work is _Science_and_Sanity_, by Alfred Korzybski.
Unfortunately, Korzybski's milk language was not English and the writing is
*really* tough to plow through. I only ever saw a copy once; I don't think
it's in print.

My exposure was through via a book called _People_In_Quandaries_ lent to
me by my grandfather, who was a friend of L. Ron Hubbard's around the time
the man was founding Dianetics. Grand-dad left Hubbard's group for all the
obvious reasons, but maintained an interest in GS. Unfortunately, I returned
the book to him so long ago that I no longer remember the author's name.

I have heard recommended a book called _The_Tyranny_Of_Words_, by a gentleman
with the name of (William P.?) (Stuart P.?) Chase.

Sessue Hayakawa, the maverick U.S. congresscritter from Hawaii, is a dedicated
booster of GS; I think he's written a popular treatment or two.

There is an "Institute for General Semantics" that publishes a lively and
interesting journal called _Etc._; you can look it up in your library's
international directory of organizations (ask for it in the Reference section).

I'm sorry these aren't more detailed. Can anyone with more recent contact with 
the GS mainstream fill in the gaps?

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      Eric S. Raymond
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