Correction: I don't mean Ostler when I say anti-Pinker, I mean Guy Deutscher, whose book The Unfolding of Language is excellent.
B > On 18 Apr 2015, at 17:28, Bob W-PDML <[email protected]> wrote: > > I recommend almost anything by David Crystal. He wrote some of the text books > I had to read when I was doing linguistics, but he has also written many much > more accessible books. > > Steven Pinker is also pretty good and I really enjoyed Empires of the Word, > by Nicholas Ostler, who is very anti-Pinker in some areas, so some > interesting differences. > > B > >> On 18 Apr 2015, at 15:06, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> For those interested in the history of the english language (without >> getting into a dry ivory tower program) I highly recommend the books: >> "The Mother Tongue (English and How it Got that Way)" by Bill Bryson >> and "Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English" by >> John McWhorter. Entertaining and educational. >> >>> On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 6:37 AM, Henk Terhell <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Here a good overview of the variety of Germanic languages: >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8LxRfdLrlU >>> Proofs how difficult it is to understand each language within such a small >>> area. Even Frisian for the Dutch is almost impossible without prior >>> knowledge. >>> >>> Henk >>> >>> >>> Bob W-PDML schreef op 18-4-2015 om 09:32: >>> >>>> where. Here's Eddie Izzard talking Old English to a Friesian farmer: >>>> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OeC1yAaWG34 Not entirely sure that he's >>>> proved >>>> his point, but of course Friesian has changed in the centuries since it and >>>> OE separated. I've had similar conversations in Italy and Romania just by >>>> making something up out of bits of Latin, French and Spanish. That's why my >>>> herd of cattle is so multinational. B >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> >> -- >> Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
