In the Land of Invented Languages

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• Book review: Arika Okrent's 'In the Land of Invented Languages'

  " 'Twas brillig and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe" Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" is not an invented language but a poem that uses invented words. Arika Okrent's fascinating book offers a comprehensive survey of artificial languages ... (read full critics)

  dallasnews published on Thu, 9 Sep 2010

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  The land of the beautiful languages

  This book it's very interesting, I loved it.
  The author go through the whole history of the artificial languages, but she does that without pedantries, all with elegance and harmony.
  The book goes beyond what it might look like at first glace, because, as the author himself says, the history of the ... (continue)

  This book it's very interesting, I loved it.
  The author go through the whole history of the artificial languages, but she does that without pedantries, all with elegance and harmony.
  The book goes beyond what it might look like at first glace, because, as the author himself says, the history of the artificial languages it's strictly connected to the history itself, and the stories of their inventors.
  When we study artificial languages, we study also the natural languages, 'cause their connected too.
  So, through and thanks to the book, we'll know about the philosophical languages, the pictographical languages, the logical languages and so on.
  It's very hard to produce an innovative language, the author says, because already the natural languages cover an enormous range of possibilities. Nevertheless, the ingenuity of the humans turned out to be extremely creative.
  From Esperanto, to Klingon, to Blissymbolics, to The Lord of the Rings' languages, the history told by the author it's complete and extremely beautiful.

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• English Books
• Paperback 342 Pages
• Edition: 1
• ISBN-10: 0812980891
• ISBN-13: 9780812980899
• Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
• Pub date: Jan 01, 2010
• Also available as: Others

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