<i>The Other Sino-Tibetan Languages</i>—Book Announcement from Psammeticus Press SpecGram Vol CLII, No 2 Contents Cartoon Theories of Linguistics—Part B—Ergativity—Phineas Q. Phlogiston, Ph.D.
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Мой паветраны човен
поўны вуграмі
— Belarusian

How do you think Mr Fookeng Ho felt when he first came to the US and discovered what his name sounds like to Americans? How about Ms Fanny Ticklerwho always thought her name sounded rather cutewhen she arrived in London and discovered that saying her own name aloud around children might get her arrested? Consider poor Richard Head, who, as a child, could never get the other kids to call him Rickythey always called him Dick, and made him cry.

Do you want experiences like these to scar your children? Of course not: no one does. But are you fluent in English, Japanese, Spanish, Korean, German,
Mon aéroglisseur est
plein d’anguilles
— French
Russian, Indonesian, French, Japanese, Italian, Chinese, Arabic, and Swahili? Of course not: no one person can be.

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Hoverkrafti im është
plot me ngjala
— Albanian
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The Other Sino-Tibetan Languages—Book Announcement from Psammeticus Press
Cartoon Theories of Linguistics—Part B—Ergativity—Phineas Q. Phlogiston, Ph.D.
SpecGram Vol CLII, No 2 Contents