Michael Erard: 2 books
Babel No More
The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
A “fascinating” (The Economist) dive into the world of linguistics that is “part travelogue, part science lesson, part intellectual investigation…an entertaining, informative survey of some of the most fascinating polyglots of our time” (The New York Times Book Review).
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Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
This original, entertaining, and surprising book investigates verbal blunders: what they are, what they say about those who make them, and how and why we've come to judge them.Um... is about how you really speak, and why it's normal for your everyday speech to be filled with errors—about one in...