Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing - Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language

Daniel Tammet

A 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 essay...