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| | A Lexicographical Addendum |
 | | As far as I can tell, this word first originated in Ursula K. Leguin's novel "The Left Hand of Darkness," an excellent novel about the experience of a human ambassador to a newly discovered planet, each of whose inhabitants has the option of changing his or her sex every month. |
| | (The novel also illustrates well the dangers of thinking that you fully grok the nature and society of any new ramen.) The word ansible was then given wider circulation by Orson Scott Card, who used it in his ficton involving Ender Wiggin, a.k.a. |
| | These four words (utlanning, framling, raman, and varelse) are known as the "Hierarchy of Exclusion," and all four of these words are categorized in this Addendum as ISI for English, despite the fact that they most likely mean something in whatever Nordic language Card found "utlanning" in. |
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