Review: The Search for the Perfect Language (The Making of Europe)
User Review - Bill Tucker - GoodreadsI gave up on this about a third of the way through. Someday, I'll pick it back up again. Read full review
Review: The Search for the Perfect Language (The Making of Europe)
User Review - Jon Gauthier - GoodreadsUnreadable in both syntax and content. Though there are a few linguistic gems in the rough, the majority of the writing (of the first 19%, at least — I stopped there) is difficult and uninteresting ... Read full review
Review: The Search for the Perfect Language (The Making of Europe)
User Review - Sara - GoodreadsI so wanted to like this book. I looked forward to reading it. I was happy the day I came home from Borders with it. (Remember Borders?) It was so boring I had trouble finishing it. I like the topic ... Read full review
Review: The Search for the Perfect Language (The Making of Europe)
User Review - Ilya - GoodreadsOne of the leitmotifs of European history since the Middle Ages has been a search for a language that is perfect: describes reality exactly, and is easy to learn and use. In Genesis 10:5, each tribe ... Read full review
Review: The Search for the Perfect Language (The Making of Europe)
User Review - Emma - GoodreadsInteresting point: I was lead to this book through a comment read on Facebook. A friend of one of my friends has always posts in all kinds of languages, some I speak myself. So we ended up being ... Read full review
Review: The Search for the Perfect Language (The Making of Europe)
User Review - Gideon Burton - GoodreadsFascinating survey of various efforts to get back to an original language (religiously) or to craft a perfect means of representation (scientifically). Gets to the heart of how humans both value ... Read full review
Review: The Search for the Perfect Language (The Making of Europe)
User Review - Jenne - GoodreadsWasn't really about what I wanted it to be about. Read full review
Review: The Search for the Perfect Language (The Making of Europe)
User Review - Deb - GoodreadsI only got a tiny bit into this book before I returned it--the structure and writing are so technical that the book is unreadable by laymen. It's a shame--the topic sounded extremely interesting. Read full review
Review: The Search for the Perfect Language (The Making of Europe)
User Review - Old-Barbarossa - GoodreadsI found that this book, considering what it was about, was nearly indecipherable...I think that is gloriously ironic, hence 2 stars rather than 1. Read full review
Review: The Search for the Perfect Language (The Making of Europe)
User Review - Douglas Summers.Stay - GoodreadsA review of many attempts (from about 1200 to 1900) to reconstruct or invent a perfect language. At first this was based on the idea of Adam speaking in a perfect language before the tower of Babel ... Read full review
