Every Word Is A Bird We Teach To Sing by Daniel Tammet
Encounters with Impossible Languages
A lyrical, reflective memoir that traces the writer’s lifelong fascination with words and languages through personal anecdotes, travel, and encounters with linguists and native speakers; it blends explanations of etymology and grammar with vivid depictions of synesthetic perception and multilingual learning to show how words carry memory, emotion, and culture. The narrative moves between intimate moments—learning to say a single new word, mourning a dying tongue—and broader meditations on translation, communication, and the human impulse to name the world, arguing that languages are fragile, living systems that shape how we think and connect.
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- 2009
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- British
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- English
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