Michael Erard

Michael Erard (born 27 December 1967)[1] is an American non-fiction writer and journalist. He holds an M.A. (linguistics) and a Ph.D. (English) from the University of Texas at Austin.[2]

Michael Erard
Born (1967-12-27) 27 December 1967
OccupationNon-fiction writer and journalist
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Texas at Austin
Notable awardsLinguistics, Language, and the Public Award 2016 (from the Linguistic Society of America)
Website
michaelerard.com

Notable works

Books
  • Erard, Michael (2007). Um…: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean. New York: Pantheon.[3][4]
  • Erard, Michael (2012). Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners.[lower-alpha 1] New York: Free Press.[6][7][8]

Articles

Notes
  1. Published in the United Kingdom as Mezzofanti's Gift.[5]
gollark: I'm sure there's *some* way to background it or whatever, or offload it to another process.
gollark: Or, I guess, more generically, "a thing to run a shell command based on some ingame action", which I bet already exists.
gollark: That sounds like a highly inefficient way to say "a thing to take ZFS snapshots on command".
gollark: I am very happy that none of my stuff ever has to deal with more than something like a few requests a second of traffic.
gollark: No, I either use NetworkManager or don't have very complex config anyway.

References
  1. BNF 17086193b.
  2. 'A Q&A with Michael Erard, Author of “Babel No More”' (ShelfLife@Texas, 27 February 2012).
  3. Review in The New York Times, 24 August 2007.
  4. Review in The Wall Street Journal, 24 August 2007.
  5. Review in The Observer, 28 July 2013.
  6. Official Babel No More website.
  7. Review in The Economist, 31 December 2011.
  8. Review in The New York Times, 20 January 2012.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.