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Abraham Lincoln had to shoulder the unique burden of leadership “All languages have their infelicities and awkward bits,” writes Arika Okrent.
In the late s, the word dude was, in the words of linguist Arika Okrent, “a term of mockery for young men who were overly concerned with keeping up with the..
Arika Okrent
American linguist
Arika Okrent[1] is an American linguist and writer of popular works on linguistic topics.
Early life and education
Okrent was born in Chicago to parents of Polish and Transylvanian descent. She was fascinated by languages beginning at an early age, which is what made her pursue a career in linguistics.
After graduating from Carleton College in ,[2] she left for Hungary to teach there for a year.[3] She earned an M.A. in Linguistics from the Gallaudet University,[4] and a Ph.D.
in Psycholinguistics from the University of Chicago in [5]
Career
Okrent is known particularly for her book In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language, a result of her five years of research into the topic of constructed languages.[6][7] Her well-received book, Highly Irregular, written