Spoken Here Quotes

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

Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages by Mark Abley
711 ratings, 3.85 average rating, 90 reviews

Spoken Here Quotes Showing 1-2 of 2

“What the survival of threatened languages means, perhaps, is the endurance of dozens, hundreds, thousands of subtly different notions of truth.”
― Mark Abley, Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages

tags: languages, linguistics, threatened-languages

1 likes

“modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand.”
― Mark Abley, Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages

0 likes

All Quotes
Quotes By Mark Abley