Invented languages, cosmopolitan dreams

Ethan Zuckerman's musings on Africa, international development a - Sat, 13/06/2009 - 12:09am
Arika Okrent has a thing for languages. Born in Chicago, she got good enough at Hungarian to teach in Hungary, and learned ASL while getting a masters degree in linguistics at Gallaudet, the world’s leading university for the deaf. Somewhere in the course of a University of Chicago PhD in psycholinguistics, things took a turn [...]