After all, he said, this is New York, land of loose language users.
In her entertaining new book, "In the Land of Invented Languages," Arika Okrent details how the rise of Klingon has spawned a passionate subculture of fans versed in the language.
"The history of invented languages is, for the most part, a history of failure," Arika Okrent, the author of "In the Land of Invented Languages," writes.
But so have the eccentric but non-bonkers creators of Loglan and Lojban, whom Arika Okrent profiles in her wonderful book "In the Land of Invented Languages".
But none of the hundreds of languages created for social reasons developed as ardent a following as those created for movies, television and books, says Arika Okrent, author of "In the Land of Invented Languages".
Still, I knew I was entering the land of second languages when I began to dream in Italian.
J. M. Coetzee is interested in the ways in which white writers, in the first half of the century, struggled to lay claim to the land by means of language, to write themselves into the place, a concern which is everywhere present in Coetzee's own novels.
Social consequences of colonisation contributing to the high rates of smoking include the experience of land dispossession, loss of language, culture and social systems [ 15], and subsequently becoming a marginalised group with considerable socio-economic disadvantage and high levels of stress [ 11- 16, 16].
Martin Amis's House of Meetings (Jonathan Cape) portrays the bleak gulags of Stalin's land in language of style and creativity.
Landmarks, the book that has arisen from my own years of word work, is a celebration and defence of land language.
