Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages by Gaston Dorren
is a delightful and entertaining voyage through some of the world’s most
interesting and influential languages. Dorren is not hung up on method or style; the work varies to a great
degree, much to his credit and the book's quality. He also destroys the notion that
a lingua franca is used because it is easy - and somehow inevitable.
They are not; power, economics, and social hegemony create them. A language does not have a destiny.
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