Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language

Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing

Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language

By
Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet
1982

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