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Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Rival Season (Hockey Boys of Loft 3B #2)
Intimacies
The Language of Liars
Guilty by Definition (The Clarendon Lexicographers #1)
1001 Dark Nights: The Dandelion Diary (Maysen Jar #2.5)
Glyph
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
The Colony
Mother Tongue
The Centre
Hèhè
Misinterpretation
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 Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language ― A Witty Linguistics Book on How Thousands of Tongues Evolved from One Source
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Breaking the Bias of English by Vivian R. ProbstI Don't Want to Forget This by Paulina Lam EsparzaOnce Upon a Lie by Michael R. FrenchWith Love, The Argentina Family by Mirta Ines TruppOlas by José Ramón Torres
Identity & Society
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Linguistics
9 books — 4 voters
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Books in Spanish for Spanish Learners
136 books — 154 voters


Alan W. Watts
The menu is not the meal.
Alan Watts

Jeffrey Eugenides
Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "th ...more
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

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