I like the Art of Syntax...but it is really about the language of poetry.
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:41 PM, ss wrote:
> On Sunday 13 Feb 2011 11:02:11 am Deepa Mohan wrote:
> > If someone gives me 43 referencesoh, dear, I wind up looking at NONE
> > of them
> >
> I agree.
>
> 42 is a much m
On Sunday 13 Feb 2011 11:02:11 am Deepa Mohan wrote:
> If someone gives me 43 referencesoh, dear, I wind up looking at NONE
> of them
>
I agree.
42 is a much more significant number.
shiv
I would third the recommendation of "Stuff of Thought". Steven Pinker
recommended it to me in a reply to one of my emails, and I hadn't read
it until then. It was an excellent recommendation for the topic we were
discussing, and is the stuff of genius, but it bears noting that it
deals with a very
On 13-Feb-2011, at 4:34 PM, Tim Bray wrote:
> Anything from Guy Deutscher is good on W&L. I was also immensely fond
> of Steven Pinker's "Words and Rules" which draws some remarkably
> amusing lessons from a ridiculously deep dive on a small number of
> English irregular verbs. -T
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Anything from Guy Deutscher is good on W&L. I was also immensely fond
of Steven Pinker's "Words and Rules" which draws some remarkably
amusing lessons from a ridiculously deep dive on a small number of
English irregular verbs. -T
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> If someone
If someone gives me 43 referencesoh, dear, I wind up looking at NONE of
them. :(
I had an excellent book on etymology for both my undergrad and post-grad
studies, here's the wiki about the author:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Jespersen
The language has evolved so very rapidly since th
On Sunday 13 February 2011 09:25 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Any others to add to this list?
A popular one, and I think an excellent choice for such a list, is Bill
Bryson's Mother Tongue.
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Subject: [silk] Books on Words
Since so many of us are fascinated by words and language. I can second
the recommendation for _The Stuff of Thought_, and the others sound
worthy of adding to the TBR pile as well.
Any others to add to this list?
Udhay
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/02/10/5-must-read-books-about-lan
