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Planet Word

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Жанр Современная проза

Год 2015

ISBN: 9780141968933

Объём книги: Полная версия

Unravel the mysteries of language with J.P. Davidson’s remarkable .

From feral children to fairy-tale princesses, secrets codes, invented languages — even a language that was eaten! — uncovers everything you didn’t know you needed to know about how language evolves. Learn the tricks to political propaganda, why we can talk but animals can’t, discover 3,000-year-old clay tablets that discussed beer and impotence and test yourself at textese — do you know your RMEs from your LOLs? Meet the 105-year-old man who invented modern-day Chinese and all but eradicated illiteracy, and find out why language caused the go-light in Japan to be blue. From the dusty scrolls of the past to the…

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