pickSeries of pop linguistics essays in the form of answers to questions. A good introductory overview of the subject. It did leave me with questions, though. I did start wondering in some of the later parts about pragmatics whether it applied to everyone or just English speakers. And the section on gesturing while speaking, how does that apply to people speaking sign languages?
1- not unusual here but I regularly get a hard time for my vocabulary 😂 I once argued with my supervisor about the correct use of tumultuous 🤷♀️
2- all of Game of Thrones or HP 😂
#two4tuesday @TheSpineView
Going back to nonfiction. I‘m into languages somewhat. Will try this one.
This should right up my alley, but I found it kind of dry when I first started reading it, and now the moment has passed. Off to the LFL it goes!
It wasn‘t a good month for reading magazines either, but perhaps I can catch up a little in May?
Meanwhile, I managed to acquire “only” six books at Malice Domestic. Three of them were free, and of the ones I bought only one is for me. Just don‘t ask about the swag!
#readordonate #monthlymagazineblitz
pickEntertaining and educating. If, like me, you've always wanted to know about the 'secret' language spoken in the emergency department of a hospital, or by cricket players, or among sound engineers, or... This book is for you.
#MarvellousMarch #readathon @Andrew65
bailedWell, at almost 50% I‘m tapping out. I can‘t get the 5 hours of my listening life back but I *can* (and did) return this to the library and move on. Here‘s the thing I learned: the author is a skilled linguist and a really, really terrible narrator in equal measure.
This might be a fantastic book in print but it is downright painful to listen to. Later, alligator. 👋
pickSO INTERESTING. Explained so many things I've just consumed as common sense in my almost 25 years of regular computer/internet/phone use. Definitely will be interesting to reread in another 25 years when the English language will have no doubt changed twice as quickly in the same amount of time.
Read with grace in Austria 💙
pickFascinating and enlightening. Some interesting ideas and perspectives. Linguistics is crazy, yall.
