I quite liked it, especially the idea of explaining some interesting linguistic everyday facts to the common people in a popularly scientific way. The topics are well-chosen, especially the one about dialects not being a form of "retarded High German". However, as a linguist, I was able to spot quite a bunch of minor mistakes, misconceptions and false explanations, so I was a bit disappointed, after being positively surprised that the (usually quite prescriptive) DUDEN edited such a bo More...