The Power Of Babel: A Natural History of Language
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781446472408 (144647240X)
Publish date: April 30th 2011
Publisher: Cornerstone Digital
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Humanities,
Language,
Science,
Culture,
Education,
Sociology,
Anthropology,
Social Science,
Microhistory
Until I came to write this review I didn't realize I had already read this on October 8th, 2005. Well, that explains why I had absorbed his ideas so thoroughly and pretty much agreed with him about everything. Oh, well. I enjoyed it like anything, again. And I got to discuss it with Veronica. Some...
The good part is that the book is pretty comprehensible, despite its scientific purpose; the bad part - not everything is interesting [to me] and there's no way I'll remember everything I want to.
Interesting read...
Another great one by McWhorter. Very funny and eye-opening.
excellent, a fine overview of linguistics and a fun read too
15 years ago
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