A review by meshsock
What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be by John McWhorter

3.0

At first, I wasn't into it at all, especially when he was giving a lot of examples in languages that I cannot hope to wrap my head around. I was less interested in the specific examples of how sentence are conjugated, how the word ended up different, etc., but as I continued on and he became a bit more general, I rather enjoyed it. His tone was very conversational and comfortable. Language is fascinating and this book makes you think about how interesting it really is. Well done.