An awareness-raising, deeply humane tour of language by the best-selling author of Born on a Blue Day is presented through a series of essays that explore such questions as whether vocabulary is destiny, why clocks talk to the Nahua of Mexico and whether or not A.I. researchers will ever produce true human-machine dialogue. 30,000 first printing. A tour of language is presented through a series of essays that explore such questions as whether vocabulary is destiny, why clocks talk to the Nahua of Mexico, and whether or not A.I. researchers will ever produce true human-machine dialogue.
