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"Do birds really ""talk?"" What language did Jesus speak? Will ongoing advances in technology ever produce true human-machine dialogue? In Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing, author of the bestsellers Born on a Blue Day and Thinking in Numbers, language savant and polyglot Daniel Tammet turns his attention to the world of language and how it shapes the human experience.From native Esperanto speakers and Queen Elizabeth's French, to spatial semantics and aspirational vowels, Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing is a delightful, astute, poetic romp through the mesmerizing world of language."

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Daniel Tammet is a writer, linguist, and educator. He is the author of Thinking in Numbers, Embracing the Wide Sky, and the New York Times bestseller Born on a Blue Day. In a poll of Britons, he was named one of the world's one hundred living geniuses. Tammet has appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, 60 Minutes, and Good Morning America, and has been featured in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Telegraph, and many other publications. He lives in Paris.

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