Language


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The Killing Spell
True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Guilty by Definition
Intimacies
A War of Wyverns (A Language of Dragons, #2)
1001 Dark Nights: The Dandelion Diary (Maysen Jar #2.5)
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
The Centre
The Colony
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
Hèhè
Misinterpretation
The Killing Spell
True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink
Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
The Elements of Style
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
The Power of the Socratic Classroom by Charles Ames FischerPedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo FreireTo the Survivors by Robert UttaroAdvanced Grammar in Use With answers by Martin HewingsDecolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
The books that made me teach
23 books — 5 voters
Arguing with the Storm by Rhea TregebovThe Family Mashber by Der NisterPaper Bridges by Kadya MolodowskyThe Book of Paradise by Itzik MangerTevye the Milkman by Sholom Aleichem
Originally Written in Yiddish
57 books — 12 voters

Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds by Leslie UmbergerTorching the Fink Books and Other Essays on Vernacular Culture by Archie GreenSouls Grown Deep Vol. 1 by William Arnett...i listen to the wind that obliterates my traces by Steve RodenHarry Smith by Andrew Perchuk
"Vernacular"
79 books — 2 voters

The Story of French by Jean-Benoît NadeauThe Power of Babel by John McWhorterThrough the Language Glass by Guy DeutscherThe Language Instinct by Steven PinkerEmpires of the Word by Nicholas Ostler
Great books on language
6 books — 1 voter


George Carlin
Meow” means “woof” in cat.
George Carlin

Patrick Rothfuss
Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.
Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

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