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In the Land of Invented Languages - Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
por Okrent, Arika
- Usado
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- New in New dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0385527888
- ISBN 13
- 9780385527880
- Livreiro
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Sobre este item
Spiegel & Grau. New in New dust jacket. 2009. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0385527888 . This specific hardback book is in new condition with a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. The dust jacket is in new condition with no discernible wear. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "In In The Land of Invented Languages, author Arika Okrent tells the fascinating and highly entertaining history of man’s enduring quest to build a better language. Peopled with charming eccentrics and exasperating megalomaniacs, the land of invented languages is a place where you can recite the Lord’s Prayer in John Wilkins’s Philosophical Language, say your wedding vows in Loglan, and read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in Lojban. A truly original new addition to the booming category of language books, In The Land of Invented Languages will be a must-have on the shelves of all word freaks, grammar geeks, and plain old language lovers."; 5.75 X 1 X 8.25 inches; 352 pages .
Sinopse
Just about everyone has heard of Esperanto, which was nothing less than one man's attempt to bring about world peace by means of linguistic solidarity. And every Star Trek fan knows about Klingon, which was nothing more than a television show's attempt to create a tough-sounding language befitting a warrior race with ridged foreheads. But few people have heard of Babm, Blissymbolics, and the nearly nine hundred other invented languages that represent the hard work, high hopes, and full-blown delusions of so many misguided souls over the centuries. In In The Land of Invented Languages, author Arika Okrent tells the fascinating and highly entertaining history of man's enduring quest to build a better language. Peopled with charming eccentrics and exasperating megalomaniacs, the land of invented languages is a place where you can recite the Lord's Prayer in John Wilkins's Philosophical Language, say your wedding vows in Loglan, and read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in Lojban. A truly original new addition to the booming category of language books, In The Land of Invented Languages will be a must-have on the shelves of all word freaks, grammar geeks, and plain old language lovers.From the Hardcover edition.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Dr. Bookman - All Books Tightly Packaged in Cardboard
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 25854
- Título
- In the Land of Invented Languages - Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
- Autor
- Okrent, Arika
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Novo
- Edição
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0385527888
- ISBN 13
- 9780385527880
- Editorial
- Spiegel & Grau
- Local de publicação
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Data de publicação
- 2009
- Palavras-chave
- 0385527888, Language, Language Invention, Invented Languages, Ficitonal Languages, Language Fun
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