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Hellspark

Janet Kagan

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

Gretchen McCulloch loved it
so I’ve paired it with Hellspark, Janet Kagen’s sf book of translation and cultural miscommunication, which several @lingthusiasm listeners told us to read and they were EXTREMELY RIGHT.

on allthingslinguistic.com · 26 Dec 2025

This book on rcmnd →

That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.