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The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages

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Despite being a bit dated at this stage, it has a modern feel to it due to its practical, no-nonsense approach - Bodmer constantly encourages you to learn short-cuts or heuristics to capitalise on the family resemblances among the different language groups, which many language books fail to do. The English language is a mongrel, consisting of 29% Norman French vocab grafted onto German grammar, with an incredible 9% of our vocab coming from Greek as well. O livro foi publicado no Brasil, nos anos 60, com o título de O homem e as línguas: guia para o estudioso de idiomas, traduzido e adaptado pelo filólogo brasileiro Aires da Mata Machado Filho, em conjunto com Paulo Rónai e Marcello Marques Magalhães.

It lights up the dim pathways of prehistory and unfolds the story of the slow growth of human expression from the most primitive signs and sounds to the elaborate variations of the highest cultures. The language-learning strategies are invaluable, and Hogben has a gift for making the history of languages not just tolerably interesting, but page-turning. Finally, he provides a vocabulary of 500 words for the major Romance languages and for the major Germanic languages. We should, iiowever, remember that there is an excessively urgent need for a more widespread common second world language. Essa consciência é obtida através do estudo da evolução das línguas e da análise das peculiaridades do nosso próprio idioma.This book - not overly dated despite its appearance in 1943 - is refreshingly un-tiresome, as opposed to the myriad of general-readership books on linguistics that strain the readers' patience with pseudo-scientific wordiness. An excellent contrast between the table manners and the traffic rules of a language guides the presentation. Os trechos mais divertidos são as tabelas comparativas em que podemos perceber padrões de semelhanças e diferenças nas línguas que evoluíram de uma língua comum. A primeira trata da história natural da linguagem e traz um panorama da história do alfabeto, do uso das flexões e como elas vão decaindo conforme a língua evolui, da sintaxe e da classificação das línguas. At one point, the author mentions that his only suggestion for learning Russian is to have been born in Russia and have grown up there.

Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages—Teutonic, Romance, Greek—helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. The other, the second part, is the most intelligent discussion yet published of the problems of constructing a synthetic or artificial language.When an accented é precedes t, p, or c at the beginning of a modern French word it often takes the place of the Latin s in English words of Romance origin. Anyways it's not the kind of book I can't read cover to cover but even a partial reading gives you a much better and more holistic sense of how language works. For example, in "I eat" "He eats", the "-s" is an unnecessary flexion in the author's eyes (I don't disagree with that). The last part about language planning might be boring if you're not a linguist or don't share a curiosity for the subject. A synthetic international language must wait for adoption upon political and educational conditions which are not yet in sight.

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