Two carvings for my forthcoming exhibition at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont, on International Mother Language Day. Both say “mother tongue,” the top one in Thai Lanna, the lower one in Mandaean. The woods are monkey pod and olive respectively. The exhibition will open the day before International Mother Language Day–namely, February 20th–and will be […]
One of the touching and altogether wonderful features of my current Kickstarter campaign is the fact that a number of linguists, recruited by the indefatigable Naoki Watanabe and working through Facebook, have translated my overall project description into other languages. As someone who after a lifetime of writing has had only one book translated into […]
This is why I love what I do. Early this morning Jerson Partible contacted me asking me if I want to carve something in Tagbanwa. I had never even heard of Tagbanwa. Within a couple of hours he had sent me this. It’s the phrase “mother tongue,” and it will be part of my exhibition […]
Our good friend (and member of the Endangered Alphabets Advisory Board) David Crystal has released yet another book–perhaps a little more tongue-in-cheek than his Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, but surely destined to be another classic. Here is the press release:
