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The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English

"The main loss when a language dies is not cultural but aesthetic. The click sounds in certain African languages are magnificent to hear. In many Amazonian languages, when you say something you have to specify, with a suffix, where you got the information. The Ket language of Siberia is so awesomely irregular as to seem a work of art."
 

Type topics

Adobe's website about the minutiae of typography.
 

Motorola F3 Manual in English

Recently (finally!) got my hands on the hopefully ultra-durable F3 (motofone). Here's an english manual to refer to, as the Spanish one it came with is unfortunately of little use to me.