I don't really have anything to say about this book. I liked it, although it didn't include a lot of information I didn't get out of Intro to Linguistics. It had a lot of jokes based on the idiosyncrasies of the English language, and I like those. The book is from 1990, so there is not anything having to do with language in the internet era, which is something I have been pondering a lot recently. I'm sure a lot has been written about it too, I just haven't sought it out.* Are the languages of the world eventually going to meld together to form a super-language because barriers in communication are disappearing? Is English going to take over? I hope not. The art of the trilled 'r' would be lost forever.
In sort of general, reading-related news, I'm a little surprised at how much non-fiction I have read so far, and at how much I have on my to-read list. I've been enjoying it all, but I am beginning to crave a novel. Unfortuantely, due to academic obligations, that novel is going to be The Sound and the Fury. I read a few pages of the other day and then put down because I couldn't figure out what the hell was going on. So that's alarming. I have to have it finished by next week, but I'm just gonna read a little Nick Horby first, kay?
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Up next: The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
*I just had to use Google, because I could not remember what the past tense of 'seek' was. How apropos.
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