Status Updates From The Loom of Language: A Gui...

Though I find at least some of these things helpful, I did sigh in relief when I finally got out of the Teutonics chapter. It is so, so long.

I regret making this book the first one of the year but I do sometimes learn new things from it.

Enjoying that this has the energy of a speedrun but in the 1940s, and very interested to hear etymology / quirks of words of English from the Romance languages and how to pronounce certain letters... at least according to the author, which I'm going to trust for now.

it's getting interesting now where he's talking about editing / communicating via writing in the English language and what to avoid. That's quite useful. The rest of it seems to be a roast of the English language itself which I guess I'm here for, but the old-fashioned (and frankly sometimes bigoted) cadence sort of makes me distrust some of the evaluations he's made thus far. So it's more like a skim.

I know that an experience with a book is going to be not great because around the first third of it I start becoming just a little insane. I suppose because I'm not a man in 1943 and have the power of retrospect to say "what do you MEAN? No, that didn't happen!" That sort of thing.

cant believe how actually delicious it is to read about linguistics