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Man vs. Language! Language Wins! public talk by linguist and author Arika Okrent ('92)
October 22nd, 2009
Linguist, author, and Carleton alum Arika Okrent ('92) will return to Carleton on Wednesday, 28 October, for a public talk:
Man vs. Language! Language Wins! How language inventors turned the enemy into a muse
Arika Okrent
Wednesday, 28 October, LDC 104, 4:30p
sponsored by the Linguistics Program, the English Department, the Cognitive Science Program, the Philosophy Department, and the Dean of the College Office
In this talk, Dr. Okrent reflects on 900 years of philosophical, symbolic, logical, whimsical, and idealistic artificial languages, and share insight into why natural language, with its corruption and arbitrariness, has been triumphant. She is the author of In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language (Spiegel and Grau, 2009).