A review by calabrag
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything by David Bellos

2.0

I learned some interesting things about language from this book, but reading it was a slog. It is not nearly as accessible as the title would seem to suggest, and I frequently got the impression that the author is someone who knows so much about his field at such a cerebral level that he's lost the ability to explain it clearly at a more basic level.