Author : Elizabeth Little
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 23,10 MB
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1596916567
Documents the author's travels throughout the country, where she witnesses firsthand the nation's many cultures and languages and what they say about who we are individually, socially and politically.
Author : Elizabeth Little
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 14,18 MB
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1608198294
Though we speak English as a nation, it's no secret that America is far from uniform. Spanish, in particular, has long been touted as the language that will figure into our national future; much has been written about the need to recognize it in our laws and schools. Yet billing America as a bilingual country is a gross misrepresentation. They speak Basque in Nevada, Hindi in San Jose, and Gullah in South Carolina. We speak European, Asian, and Native American languages, as well as hybrids like Creole and Spanglish. And Elizabeth Little's home--Queens, New York--is among the most ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse places on the planet. Small surprise, then, that Little felt a yearning to find the cultural and linguistic soul of the country. And she has done it in the most American way imaginable: on a road trip. This book is the result: a festive roadmap of the bounties of our country. We'll learn about the struggle of the French-speaking population of Maine to get along with the community around them; the traditional ways of the German-speaking Amish in Pennsylvania; and the rich history of the little-known African population of Nantucket. Elizabeth Little is a witty and endearing tourguide for this memorable and original trip.
Author : B. Elwin Sherman
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 19,69 MB
Release : 2007-02
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1430317957
Everyone should have a legacy. Ask yourself today what you'd most want to be remembered for tomorrow if you died tonight. You should have an answer at the ready. Yes, it's true, according to our 43rd President, that "you never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone," but that shouldn't stop you from considering who you were while you still are. Welcome to Bush Country, and the landscape of its linquistic legacy.
Author : Abdelfattah Kilito
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,40 MB
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0811224945
A playful and erudite look at the origins of language In the beginning there was one language—one tongue that Adam used to compose the first poem, an elegy for Abel. “These days, no one bothers to ask about the tongue of Adam. It is a naive question, vaguely embarrassing and irksome, like questions posed by children, which one can only answer rather stupidly.” So begins Abdelfattah Kilito’s The Tongue of Adam, a delightful series of lectures. With a Borgesian flair for riddles, stories, and subtle scholarly distinctions, Kilito presents an assortment of discussions related to Adam’s tongue, including translation, comparative religion, and lexicography: for example, how, from Babel onward, can we explain the plurality of language? Or can Adam’s poetry be judged aesthetically, the same as any other poem? Drawing from the commentators of the Koran to Walter Benjamin, from the esoteric speculations of Judaism to Herodotus, The Tongue of Adam is a nimble book about the mysterious rise of humankind’s multilingualism.
Author : Mike Artell
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,48 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780806909516
An illustrated collection of hundreds of difficult tongue twisters, arranged alphabetically.
Author : Joseph Mulholland
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 46,15 MB
Release : 2013-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781493613748
Joseph Mulholland, poet and spoken word artist, debuts his collection of poems.
Author : USA Patent Office
Publisher :
Page : 2282 pages
File Size : 37,6 MB
Release : 1898
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Author : C. L. Smith
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 2020-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781735613208
Who Knew College Could Be This Funny? In his quest to show what campus life was really like for the pioneering undergrads of Chico State University's Golden Age, our courageous author takes us on a trip to that crazy age between the 60s and 80s -- the rollicking 1970s. You remember those days, don't you? Not quite free love, lots of rock 'n' roll, drugs of the innocent and not-so-innocent type and the absolute feeling that all was right with the world. This book captivates its readers with astute, amusing and downright hilarious moments in the day in the life of a Chico State Wildcat. Where else can you party with your profs, skinny-dip between class and coast through stop signs on your bike with only a nominal risk of winding up on somebody's windshield? Based on a compilation of past columns from several Northern California weeklies including a stint as ace cub reporter for his college newspaper, C L Smith invites us along on his migration from Southern California to the quaint college town of Chico, California. After college, he finally ditches his shorts, tee-shirts and flip-flops and assumes the identity of a bona fide bon vivant as the editor of the Santa Cruz Good Times. Later, C L Smith was the marketing wizard who introduced several iconic advertising campaigns of the 80s, 90s and early 2000s. And, if you think Smith's college years were funny, wait till you join him for a walk on the wild side of American business in the advertising and wireless worlds.
Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher :
Page : 1616 pages
File Size : 20,3 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Patents
ISBN :
Author : James Augustus Henry Murray
Publisher :
Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 1926
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