Editions Le Tripode published in 2017 a small dense and shiny book, sometimes hilarious, and above all exotic. I would like to share it because it makes you leave your home. As we know, there is a way out inside the books. During this parenthesis of isolation, Poésie du gérondif radically decentred, recalling the extraordinary variety of ways of telling reality.
The reader of this "linguistic vagrancy", the stimulated mind, feels less locked up. He learns some qualities from the six thousand languages that are used today to speak, describe and relate. Their names are often wonderful: chiriki, galibi, kilikilibamba, aïnou, pipil ... They are arranged by family but not all of them. Some are spoken thousands of miles from the corner where they were born: languages, like viruses, travel with people, revealing - if one tracks them - ancient exiles and forgotten quests. Others die with their last speakers: it is not good in
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