Gaston Dorren
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in Valkenburg aan de Geul, Netherlands
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John McWhorter, Guy Deutscher, Midas Dekkers
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Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe
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2014
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Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
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2018
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Taaltoerisme: Feiten en verhalen over 53 Europese talen
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Zeven talen in zeven dagen
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Vakantie in eigen taal
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2016
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De Dutchionary
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Het land van Hilde: archeologie in het Noord-Hollandse kustgebied
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Nieuwe tongen: de talen van migranten in Nederland en Vlaanderen
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1999
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De campesino in het paleis: het landbouwbeleid van Peru's president Garcia
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1989
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The Game of the Rose: The Third World in the Global Flower Trade
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1995
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"Nunez employs essentially the same fragmented, allusive, meditative format for this novel that she used in the two fictional works that preceded it. I felt the approach was much less effective here. This novel lacks the focus and drama of the earlier"
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The Moor (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #4):
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“If you're one of those people who worry that the English language is going to the dogs, linguists are of no help to you. Whatever it is that annoys you - double negatives, the demise of whom, the non-standard usage of literally - linguists will answer that a language is a living thing, and is always changing. You can't stop the process, so you'd better get used to it.”
― Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe
― Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe
“Gönnen (also spelt as goennen) – the exact opposite of ‘to envy’: to be gladdened by someone else’s fortune. Old”
― Lingo
― Lingo
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