Two quick book notes

[rhu]

At the NPL con, someone recommended "My Father's Paradise" to me. It's a non-fiction book by an assimilated American Jew searching for his father's roots in Kurdistan. The reason someone recommended it was because the hook is that the father is a world expert in "neo-Aramaic" --- i.e., the language he grew up speaking --- and I had listed "Babylonian Aramaic" as a language that I can read when we did introductions.

The book was a snooze and I bailed 30 pages and three weeks in when the library sent me a reminder email that it was due the next day.

On the other hand, at the same con, rikchik mentioned that his eponymous (epo-LJ-userid-ous?) language was mentioned in a new book by Arika Okrent titled "In the Land of Invented Languages", and I also took that out of the library and devoured it in two days. It's well-researched, well-written, funny, touching, and enlightening. Mi rekomendas ĉi tiu libro. [No, I don't know Esperanto, I used an online translator.]

And Alissa has been reading "The Monster in the Backpack" to me. It's quite charming and funny.

Comments

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it!

Esperanto translator

[brian-barker.livejournal.com]

Apart from the lack of an accusitive (in Esperanto word order is free) And I don't mean "senpaga":-) The translation was excellent

Can you tell me which translator you used ?

Dankon