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“An extremely entertaining
and impressively
erudite book”

—Ole Stig Andersen,
Information (Danish daily)



“Stuffed with facts and dates and lists and exotica and ephemera about languages and linguistics;
I loved it.”

—Geoffrey K. Pullum, Professor of General Linguistics at University of Edinburgh and author of The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language


 ANSWERS ALL YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT LANGUAGES
(EVEN THOSE YOU NEVER THOUGHT TO ASK)

Are there native speakers of Klingon?
Has there ever been a state with Esperanto as its official language?
What is the least useful dictionary ever produced?
What is the world's smallest language?
Does English have more words than other languages?
In what country are people the most polyglot?
Can words consist of consonants alone?
Click here to see Mikael Parkvall’s rendering of “Colorless green
ideas sleep furiously”
 
PREVIEW THROUGH PAGE 19
(PDF)
HARDBACK isbn 978-1-59028-210-6
480 pages, $48.00

PAPERBACK isbn 978-1-59028-210-6
480 pages, $25.00

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Mikael Parkvall is a professional linguist teaching and doing research at Stockholm University. He is the author of four other books on linguistics.
 


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