Chris MacDonald is a translator and interpreter based in Cardiff. His book ‘The Science of War: Sun Tzu’s Art of War re-translated and re-considered’ is published in March 2018.
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What Story Shall we Tell?
This is not a fable from a galaxy far, far away. It’s from a study by researchers at Lund University in Sweden. Jedek is spoken by a small community of people in the Malaysian highlands, and the language features described above are not uncommon among cultures not yet swept aside in the civilizational deluge. They are part of our human heritage.
March 5, 2018