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Title: makes a fascinating subject dull
Review: I love words and languages and enjoy reading about them so thought I would like this book but it is very dull. I opened it at random to find a sample sentence to illustrate my point - here is the first one I happened upon which will do to give a flavor of the book: "The empirical evidence that bears on the usefulness of thinking about language transfer in these typological ensembles is somewhat equivocal but holds promise." If you like this type of sentence perhaps you will enjoy this book but I do not and did not.
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