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Bezig met laden... Lingua (2012)door Gaston Dorren
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 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. Excellent and fun look at European languages. We learnt all sorts of things about how different languages work that I wish I could now remember. I do now know why Scottish mountains are so difficult to pronounce and wonder if anyone can get it right. This is a well written (as you would expect) and engaging book covering all sorts of European languages.
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for no apparent reason" – is just "mindboggling", and generally that "Gaelic spelling is flawed … wasteful, arcane and outdated".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'?") Is een bewerking vanLingua door Gaston Dorren Lingua door Gaston Dorren Heeft de bewerkingLingua door Gaston Dorren Lingua door Gaston Dorren
"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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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