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Trained as a linguist and historian, Michael Erard has spent more than two decades sharing compelling stories about language, languages, and the people who use and study them. He is the author of two previous books, Um . . . Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean and Babel No More- The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners, which has been translated into eight languages. He is a researcher at the Centre for Language Studies at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and is training to become an end-of-life doula. Find out more at www.michaelerard.com.
“Care for the dying resembles nothing so much as care for the newly born. This deep, immeasurable connection is precisely what Michael Erard, a linguist and historian, most wants to explore. 'With our earliest utterances,' he writes, 'we announce ourselves' and are recognized 'as persons ready to participate in social life.' With our last sounds, we carve out a space for leaving it. Bye Bye I Love You follows both of these journeys, searching for what these words—and our desperate need to hear them—reveal about their meaning, our mortality and the ephemerality of being human.” —The Wall Street Journal “A book ending with so much death may sound like a hard read. Instead, it is a beautiful and even strangely comforting one, with Mr Erard as a pensive, patient guide. The end must come; unrealistic expectations about final messages need not.” —The Economist “Erard’s most essential point is that the recently born and the about-to-die share a state of signifying that is just beyond words” —4columns
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