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Biting the Wax Tadpole: Confessions of a Language Fanatic

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 | #1395309 in Books |  Little, Elizabeth |  2008-11-11 |  2008-11-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.25 x.50 x7.15l,.75 | File type: PDF | 192 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Delightful--but with issues|By Lily|I've been torn about how to review this book. On the one hand, it's undeniably delightful. As a head-over-heels lover of linguistics, I was totally engaged by Elizabeth Little's witty and affectionate musings on the wonders, quirks, nuances, complexities, and varieties of language. This is a woman after my own heart! On the other hand, you ca

When Chinese shopkeepers tried to find a written equivalent of Coca-Cola, one set of characters they chose was pronounced “ke-kou ke-la.” It sounded right, but it literally translated as “bite the wax tadpole.”

Language, like travel, is always stranger than we expect and often more beautiful than we imagine. In Biting the Wax Tadpole Elizabeth Little takes a decidedly unstuffy and accessible tour of grammar via the languages of t...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Biting the Wax Tadpole: Confessions of a Language Fanatic   |  Elizabeth Little. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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