Content tagged with "liquistics"
Alpha Beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World
“Ridiculous book supposedly about the spread of the alphabet, but really about anything but that. This author hasn’t found a tangent he didn’t want to go off on. At any given point, I couldn’t figure…”
Grammatical Man
“I really wanted to like this book, because I really wanted to understand this book. But I didn’t. I tried, and I have a lot of background with the concepts – information theory and such. But, damn,…”
The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs, & Pictograms
“Interesting, full of pictures, but it got ponderous. Weirdly long, because it’s basically a picture book, but with a lot of text, so you spend a lot of time starting and ending sections, and looking…”
