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David crystal, obe, fba, flsw, fcil born 6 july 1941 is a british linguist, academic and author. If you are wondering how many people speak macedonian, malay, or makua, or if. Publication date 2006 topics linguistics, language and languages publisher overlook press. David crystal, penguin books, london, 2006, 486pp, isbn 978 0 141 01552 1. It ranges over everything from how children learn to read to what makes words rude or polite, from eyebrow flashes to whistling languages. David crystal ebooks epub and pdf downloads ebookmall. The future of englishes, language death, and internet linguistics. In 1995, he was awarded the obe for services to the english language. But as linguist crystal makes clear, language is an extremely powerful tool that defines the human species.
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