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Tsundoku (noun, Japanese): buying books and not reading them; letting books pile up unread on shelves or floors or nightstands.
Tartle (verb, Scots): to hesitate while introducing or meeting someone because you have forgotten their name.
Hoppípolla (verb phr., Icelandic): jumping into puddles.
Discover these and many other words to surprise, delight, and enamor. Terms for flirtatious talk that leads nowhere, for the urge to peer into other people's...
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An indispensable comprehensive reference guide to the phonetic alphabet symbols, revised and expanded.
Phonetic Symbol Guide is a comprehensive and authoritative encyclopedia of phonetic alphabet symbols, providing a complete survey of the hundreds of characters used by linguists and speech scientists to record the sounds of the world's languages.
This fully revised second edition incorporates the major revisions to the International Phonetic Alphabet...
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Philosophical Investigations - a landmark in 20th century philosophy - was published in 1953, two years after the death of its author. In the preface written in Cambridge in 1945 where he was professor of philosophy he states: 'Four years ago I had occasion to re-read my first book (the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus) and to explain its ideas to someone. It suddenly seemed to me that I should publish those old thoughts and the new ones together: that...
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The front cover of the second edition of Language, Truth and Logic carried this statement in capital letters: 'THE CLASSIC TEXT WHICH FOUNDED LOGICAL POSITIVISM - AND MODERN BRITISH PHILOSOPHY.'
It was a bold statement, but the book, first published in 1936 when A. J. Ayer was just 25 and a lecturer on philosophy at Christ Church, Oxford, drew unstinting praise from leading figures in the field, including Bertrand Russell. Its effect was to 'sweep...
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