The curse of tongues /
Busk, Douglas
The curse of tongues / Douglas Busk. - London : Pall Mall Press, 1965. - ix,141 p. ; 22 cm.
Table of Contents
I. The heritage of Babel
The importance of awareness
The myth of the classics
The agglutinative peril
The trap of similarity
Transliteration
English as a universal tongue
The interpreter's task
Italian and Spanish - the dissonance of similarity
Teutons, Scandinavians and Slavs
The Briton as Linguist
Accent and environment
Traitor word
Pity the poor foreigner
II. Cures for the curse of tongues
The planner's tools
Phrase books
Dictionaries
Grammars
Teachers
Notebooks
Gramophone records and tapes
Reading and writing
Economy of labour
Language laboratories
Language and languages--Philosophy.
407 / BUS
The curse of tongues / Douglas Busk. - London : Pall Mall Press, 1965. - ix,141 p. ; 22 cm.
Table of Contents
I. The heritage of Babel
The importance of awareness
The myth of the classics
The agglutinative peril
The trap of similarity
Transliteration
English as a universal tongue
The interpreter's task
Italian and Spanish - the dissonance of similarity
Teutons, Scandinavians and Slavs
The Briton as Linguist
Accent and environment
Traitor word
Pity the poor foreigner
II. Cures for the curse of tongues
The planner's tools
Phrase books
Dictionaries
Grammars
Teachers
Notebooks
Gramophone records and tapes
Reading and writing
Economy of labour
Language laboratories
Language and languages--Philosophy.
407 / BUS