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Language Is A Wild Animal: Rough, Ambiguous, Inconsistent In Countless Ways. But That Just Makes It All The More Tempting To Tame It. Many Have Tried, From Sticklers For Supposedly Correct Grammar To Inventors Of Supposedly Perfect Languages; From Software Engineers Working On Machine Translation To Governments That See Language Management As Politics By Another Means. But When You Enter The Lair Of A Wild Beast, You Can Be Lucky To Escape With Your Wits. Join Lane Greene On A Journey Of Discovery Into The Deep Strangeness Of Language. Learn Why Grammar Rules Can Never Capture The Extraordinary Variety Of Ordinary Usage. See What Happens When You Try To Design A Language That Really Makes Sense. Find Out Why, For All The Talk Of Decline In English, No Language In Recorded History Has Ever Gone To The Dogs, Or Ever Could. And Learn The Fate Of Those Bold Individuals Who, Through Heroism Or Ignorance, Ventured To Teach Their Tongue Some New Tricks. Introduction: The Case Of The Missing Whom -- Bringing The Universe To Order -- Is Language Logic? -- Machines For Talking -- Buxom, But Never Nice -- Language Tamers With Armies And Navies -- Whom In A Biker Bar -- Apologies To Orwell --

Who reads Talk on the Wild Side : the Untameable Nature of Language?

Author

Lane Greene, Robert Lane Greene

Publisher

Economist Books

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781781258064

Category

reference

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.3 / 5 (57 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14