In the land of invented languages Esperanto rock stars, Klingon poets, Loglan lovers, and the mad dreamers who tried to build a perfect language
Okrent tells the fascinating and highly entertaining history of man's enduring quest to build a better language. Peopled with charming eccentrics and exasperating megalomaniacs, the land of invented languages is a place where you can recite the Lord's Prayer in John Wilkins's Philosophical Language,...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Spiegel & Grau,
2009.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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