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January 01, 1947 in Liverpool, The United Kingdom

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Reference, Cooking, Food & Wine

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Andrew Dalby (born Liverpool, 1947) is an English linguist, translator and historian who most often writes about food history.

Dalby studied at the Bristol Grammar School, where he learned some Latin, French and Greek; then at the University of Cambridge. There he studied Latin and Greek at first, afterwards Romance languages and linguistics. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1970. Dalby then worked for fifteen years at Cambridge University Library, eventually specializing in Southern Asia. He gained familiarity with some other languages because of his work there, where he had to work with foreign serials and afterwards with South and Southeast Asian materials. In 1982 and 1983 he collaborated with Sao Saimong in cataloguing the Scott Collect...more

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Average rating: 3.71 · 122 ratings · 27 reviews · 24 distinct works

	Rediscovering Homer: Inside the Origins of the Epic 3.27 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Dangerous Tastes: The Story of Spices (California Studies in Food and Culture, 1) 3.39 avg rating — 23 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Dictionary of Languages 4.56 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Bacchus: A Biography 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Cheese: A Global History 2.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Siren Feasts: A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Classical Cookbook by Andrew Dalby, Sally Grainger 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Language in Danger: The Loss of Linguistic Diversity and the Threat to Our Future 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Empire of Pleasures 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Tastes of Byzantium: The Cuisine of a Legendary Empire 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	My rating:

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“Words for completely novel concepts and technical breakthroughs are devised as soon as needed, explained with ease and absorbed with scarcely an effort by all who need them. This ability to innovate in language is crucial to every scientific advance, to our intellectual curiosity, to our originality as human individuals, because it is crucial to our ability to communicate new ideas and discoveries.”
― Andrew Dalby, Language in Danger: The Loss of Linguistic Diversity and the Threat to Our Future

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“The fact that in the twentieth century a greater proportion of the people in the world could communicate with one another, using English or just a few other languages, appears not to have stopped any wars, nor to have reduced the frequency with which wars have broken out, nor to have made the wars that have broken out less brutal. In fact, several murderous wars have been fought recently among people who speak 'the same language' in real terms.”
― Andrew Dalby, Language in Danger: The Loss of Linguistic Diversity and the Threat to Our Future

tags: language , war

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“On the basis of this information, it would be possible to argue that if everybody spoke English (or Chinese or Esperanto for that matter) everybody would be at war even more often.”
― Andrew Dalby, Language in Danger: The Loss of Linguistic Diversity and the Threat to Our Future

tags: language , war

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