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The Chicago Tribune At Random column: This holiday season, turn page to the new world of words.
Byline: Nathan Bierma, Chicago Tribune
Dec. 21--It is the season of year-end lists and last-minute shopping, so here are the 10 best language books of 2005:
10. "Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods" (St. Martin's Press, 320 pages, $24.95). Wex takes a colorful look at Yiddish words and phrases for food, sex and other things to kvetch about, providing a lively addition to Dovid Katz's more straightforward history published last year: "Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish" (Basic Books, 430 pages, $26.95).
9. "A Natural History of Latin: The Story of the World's Most Successful Language" by Tore Janson (Oxford University Press, 305 pages, $24). What a long, strange trip it's been for Latin, from its origins in Rome to its use in the medieval church to its current job helping us name new technology ("television," "video," "digital"). ...
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