Content tagged with “liquistics”

There are 3 item(s) tagged with “liquistics” on this site.

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Alpha Beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
July 17, 2017
Words
128

“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 out if the author was talking about the purported subject, or just telling some random story about a…”

Grammatical Man
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
June 19, 2016
Words
223

“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, this book is out there. It’s very ambitious. It starts off talking about mainstream information…”

The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs, & Pictograms
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
October 6, 2017
Words
51

“ 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 at captions. You don’t really get in a narrative flow. Almost a coffee table book, really. ”