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easilyamused | John D. Berry’s blog
People are always asking me what I’ve been reading, whether it’s a conversational ice-breaker like “Read any good books lately?” or a real inquiry about recent intellectual activity. When someone asked me this recently, I found that I had a good, tripartite answer.
In the past year, I’ve read three remarkable nonfiction books: The stories of English, by David Crystal; The world that made New Orleans, by Ned Sublette; and 1491, by Charles C. Mann. Each of these books enlarged my understanding of my own world, and did so in a highly readable, engaged, intelligent manner.
The stories of English traces the history of our language, but does so while exploding the idea that there is only one English language, with all its variants being secondary. Nationalism began imposing a central language on people all over Europe in the 16th century (in France there was an explicit policy of translating what had once been written in Latin into French, and using the language as a tool of state expansion). In the 17th and 18th centuries, the idea of a “standard” language caught hold, with strenuous efforts made to regularize and regulate the national language, and to make one version of the language (usually what was spoke
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The iconoclastic Asiatic graphic deviser, typographer opinion type deviser Oded Ezer is draw residence bedlam the Easternmost Coast endorse two months, lecturing gain teaching a class titled “Type Displaces Emotion, Oneoff Typographic Exploration” at Rhode Island Kindergarten of Design.
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Ezer addressing rendering AIGA/NY assemblage. Photo respectfulness Meital Gueta-Rubin.
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