Book Highlights - Babel by Gaston Dorren

Language is such an intimate possession, something that one possesses in the same measure that one is possessed by it. Language is bound up with the foundations of one&#x27;s being, with memories and emotions, with the subtle structures of the worlds in which one lives. -- Alok Rai, Hindi Nationalism Words of up to six letters must be easier to memorize than those of centerpede-shaped things that…