Talk on the Wild Side: Why Language Can't Be Tamed by Lane Greene, The Economist

Talk on the Wild Side: Why Language Can't Be Tamed

Lane Greene, The Economist

240 pages • first pub 2018 (view editions)

nonfiction challenging informative medium-paced
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Language is the most human invention. Spontaneous, unruly, passionate, and erratic it resists every attempt to discipline or regularize it--a history celebrated here in all its irreverent glory.Language is a wild thing. It is vague and anarchic. S...

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