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Sto caricando le informazioni... Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages (originale 2018; edizione 2016)di Gaston Dorren (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Linguist Gaston Dorren takes us on a quick jaunt through the various languages and language groups spoken in Europe, spending just a few pages pointing out specific and sometimes quirky things about the grammar or history of each one. Given my longstanding fascination with language in all its forms, this sounds right up my alley, but I'm afraid I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I expected to. Dorren's writing is often pretty dry, and his attempts at humor don't really land for me. And, by its very nature, the book is pretty disjointed and rather shallow. I'm not sorry I read it, and I did learn a few interesting facts, but it's not quite the entertaining linguistic tour that I was hoping for. ( ) Interesting book. If you like languages and/or linguistics, you will like this book. The book has 60 chapters and each one tells a story or anecdote about a different Indo-European language. There were several languages that I had never heard of before. My only wish would be that it included a few non-Indo-European languages such as Arabic, Coptic and Egyptian. Would have loved to see what he would have discovered about them. Highly recommend this book. A good book for any amateur language lover/linguist. The section on Esperanto was a little pessimistic and maybe not entirely correct, but hey I'm no Esperantist... Since I read the Norwegian translation it could just have been a weird translation that skewed some original sense of humour. Otherwise a good read indeed. A literal crash course on all languages you may find in Europe. Very, very easy to read and understand, except for a few chapters heavy in grammar, but otherwise a fast, enjoyable read. Would have appreciated more thorough information, but otherwise it’s a great first book if you’re looking into learning about the language diversity in the European continent.
Are some languages worse than others? The question might sound silly, but in this entertaining exercise in "language tourism" (the book's original Dutch title), the author isn't frightened of making judgments. He thinks lenition – the habit in Welsh of "changing a word's first letter for no apparent reason" – is just "mindboggling", and generally that "Gaelic spelling is flawed … wasteful, arcane and outdated". The "ludicrous" variety of cases in Slovak amounts to "chaos", while Breton's system of naming numbers makes mental arithmetic unnecessarily difficult. In the author's native Dutch, the gendering of nouns is changing in what he calls "a blatant act of linguistic sexism". (Everything that is not obviously a female living thing is a "he".) Nor will Anglophone readers of this edition feel smug after Dorren's excellent dissection of the illogicality of English, with its 20 different vowel sounds, impossible spelling and idiosyncratic formations. (Very reasonably, Dorren wonders: "Why does English say 'I want you to listen' rather than the more straightforward 'I want that you listen'?") È un adattamento diHa l'adattamento
"Spins the reader on a whirlwind tour of sixty European languages and dialects, sharing quirky moments from their histories and exploring their commonalities and differences ... [and taking] us into today's remote mountain villages of Switzerland, where Romansh is still the lingua franca, to formerly Soviet Belarus, a country whose language was Russified by the Bolsheviks, to Sweden, where up until the 1960s polite speaking conventions required that one never use the word 'you' in conversation"--Amazon.com. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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