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"Spins the reader on a whirlwind tour of sixty European languages and dialects, sharing quirky moments from their histories and exploring their commonalities and differences ... [and taking] us into today's remote mountain villages of Switzerland, where Romansh is still the lingua franca, to formerly Soviet Belarus, a country whose language was Russified by the Bolsheviks, to Sweden, where up until the 1960s polite speaking conventions required that one never use the word 'you' in conversation"--Amazon.com.
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Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages, Gaston Dorren
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- Released
- 2015
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Gaston Dorren
- Publisher
- ATLANTIC MONTHLY PR
- Released
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 303
- ISBN10
- 0802124070
- ISBN13
- 9780802124074
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, History, Maps & Travel, True Stories, Travel, Science, Travel Guides, Languages, Opinion Journalism & Essays, Linguistics
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- "Spins the reader on a whirlwind tour of sixty European languages and dialects, sharing quirky moments from their histories and exploring their commonalities and differences ... [and taking] us into today's remote mountain villages of Switzerland, where Romansh is still the lingua franca, to formerly Soviet Belarus, a country whose language was Russified by the Bolsheviks, to Sweden, where up until the 1960s polite speaking conventions required that one never use the word 'you' in conversation"--Amazon.com.