#this book also features a lot of international cooperation at an unrealistic scale but it has a better excuse
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#me reading the martian: physics and botany. i don't know anything about these! what fun i am having!#me reading project hail mary: THATS NOT HOW MEMORY WORKS. THATS NOT HOW LANGUAGE WORKS#not that i am even an 'expert' but still#[man gripping sink voice] i don't need interesting linguistic worldbuilding in every book i read. i don't. i do not#books#my posts#talking to my scientist friends about the martian they were so annoyed by the science. whereas i was having a grand old time#the thing that annoyed me most about the martian was how all these world governments banded together to spend billions#of dollars just to rescue one measly astronaut? there's asking me to suspend disbelief and then there's whatever that was.#this book also features a lot of international cooperation at an unrealistic scale but it has a better excuse#so i'll allow it#i'm still having fun i do find his books eminently readable i just. sir please talk to one (1) conlanger i'm begging you#there are aspects where i'm like okay i can see how you needed to fudge that to get anywhere with your plot#but there are other aspects where i'm like hey you actually could have made this part less inaccurate. and didn't for no reason. boo!
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