Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing the unknown assassin

Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing the unknown assassinA mind expanding, deeply humane tour of language by the bestselling author of Born on a Blue Day and Thinking in Numbers. Is vocabulary destiny? Why do clocks "talk" to the Nahua people of Mexico? Will A. I. researchers ever produce true human machine dialogue? In this mesmerizing collection of essays, Daniel Tammet answers these and many other questions about the intricacy and profound power of language. In Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing,

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