David Bellos, "Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything"
English | ISBN: 0865478767 | 2012 | PDF/EPUB | 243 pages | 2/1 MB
English | ISBN: 0865478767 | 2012 | PDF/EPUB | 243 pages | 2/1 MB
People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbors’ languages—as did many ordinary Europeans in times past (Christopher Columbus knew Italian, Portuguese, and Castilian Spanish as well as the classical languages).