What survives of linguistic relativity once the snow vocabulary is gone.
Russian has two basic words for blue. What that does, and does not do, to Russian speakers.
A schoolteacher's wager, a cliff in Persia, and a test conducted in sealed envelopes.
Fourteen centuries of reading the signs fluently, and entirely wrongly.
What people write when the writing cannot be erased; crypto graffiti, and why eighty bytes of permanence buys less in Bengali than in English.
Biblical mistranslation, examined; the famous cases, and the legends that grew on them.
Arabic marks it on the person addressed, Thai on the person speaking, Mandarin only on the page. Nine languages, with the tables.
How English became the language of code; a seven-bit encoding, and the languages built in response.