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Book Review:  How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words by Sophia Smith Galer

I cannot say, despite my decades of worldwide wanderings, that I have become any sort of language virtuoso. I would pick up the local languages the best I could while passing through, and due to prolonged stays in the appropriate … Continue reading

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Book Review: What Language Is (And What It Isn’t and What It Could Be) by John McWhorter

At the science fiction convention ConDor 2013 I attended a panel on linguistics by David Peterson, who created four languages for the TV miniseries “Game of Thrones”.  His presentation fascinated me, and I kept interrupting to ask questions.  At the … Continue reading

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