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Guy Deutscher

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Guy Deutscher is the author of Through the Language Glass and The Unfolding of Language. Formerly a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge and of the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Languages in the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, he is an honorary Research Fellow at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures in the University of Manchester.

Through The Language Glass has been short listed for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2011

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Average rating: 3.91 · 1,685 ratings · 308 reviews · 3 distinct works · Similar authors

	Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages 3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 1,064 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention 4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 621 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Superconductors: From Granular to High Tc 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Syntactic Change in Akkadian: The Evolution of Sentential Complementation 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Guy Deutscher

“Anyone who has tried to learn a foreign language knows only too dearly that languages can be full of pointless irregularities that increase complexity considerably without contributing much to the ability to express ideas. English, for instance, would have losed none of its expressive power if some of its verbs leaved their irregular past tense behind and becomed regular.”
― Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

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“And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue has exhausted their brains' capacity to cope with any further irregularity”
― Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

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“The normal man of intelligence has something of a contempt for linguistic studies, convinced as he is nothing can well be more useless. Edward Sapir - 1924”
― Guy Deutscher

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