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I think I would have liked this much better if the audiobook had been narrated by a woman. I always assume books by female authors will be but I guess it doesn’t really matter with nonfiction. I’m just so good at tuning out men’s voices 😔

Now she's offering us a skippable part of the book! "And here is the long answer (which you can skip, if you'd like, but you'll miss two or three things about world languages)." Why would I want to skip this? This is why I picked up the book. And why are we at page 122 and only just now suggesting there are skippable portions of the book? I wish I was told I could skip the shallow anthropology lesson on page 80

Took until page 110 for the author to grant themselves the "poetic license" that they've already been using quite liberally. "Allow me to tell you a story, to illustrate a point. And forgive me if I warp the plot a little to suit my needs—I hear by grant myself poetic license."
Like dawg, what have you been doing this entire time? Somehow she's only able to address her habit of getting off topic by over explaining

This book is fascinating, but really too mentally taxing and similar to my every day reading to be the escape I like reading to be. But alas, I have already checked this book and the next book out, so I shall read them however arduous the next two days are.

Language and writing should never be linked to ideology and politics. Science, and scientific data, bow to no flag.

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