I‘ve been reading this for a month & It will take me another month to finish because it‘s dense with information. However, as a teacher of students learning English I find it so interesting. This is about an organization in New York City documenting the 700+ languages spoken there, and also their attempt to save some languages that are going extinct by recording people and cataloging words and grammar.
👯♀️ I‘m reading this with my book club.
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Life is a comedy of disorientation about people who believe in, commit to, and act on the erroneous.
A mondegreen is a misinterpretation the ear makes of a spoken (or sung) line. The term is derived from part of a folk ballad-- “They have slain the Earl of Moray/ And laid him on the green“-- which was misheard by Sylvia Wright (who coined the term) as “They have slain the Earl of Moray and Lady Mondegreen.“
I'd learned that the best response to a world conspiring against you is not to isolate yourself but to throw yourself more wholeheartedly into it.
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