Re: Re : Malat
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 9, 1998, 4:06 |
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Garrett wrote:
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> No, i haven't... i've only read one book about language, which was by Mario
> Pei. I got the idea from Rick Morneau's Lexical Semantics (who says the same
> thing also).
It's a great book, you'd probably be interested. I haven't read that
Lexical Semantics (is there a hardcopy I can get? I find it hard to
read something like that on the Net), but Words in Context is a great
exploration not only of language, but also of the Japanese culture.
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