This book is an awesome archive-cum-well-formed-essays on more impressive landscapes of speeches and languages, as many linguists-students would accept.
In this book Koh Johng-Seok, a journalist since 1986 and the writer of this book, sends his mother tongue many cheerful greetings in various facets.
As he skids through the wintry grasses of Korean language spectrum, indeed his activity draws up from this well of language: nuance-studies, structure-studies, or teen-language studies.
Emerging from his researches, He lists as Korean jewels honorifics, O-deok Lee's language of the public, and number 60-something of Korean words in shades of the vocabulary for colour red. He compares the Chinese characters with Latin in terms of the flows, changes and expansion of language.
In the middle of this delightful endeavour of a book, he succeeds in crafting something like a honouring orbituary out of each of several late, fluent Korean authorities.
Nearing the book's end, he selects and briefly touches upon the big shots of linguistics, Saussure and Chomsky, as his obliging subject for their scholastic originality.
As a longtime fan of Koh's words and works, I see this book as pleasantly fitting for advanced learners of Korean language. He could be fathomed like a Bill Bryson book; The similarity does not end with these authors having similar career paths as journalist-author, they also have this same research avidity for the benefit of everybody that is almost spiritual!
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