Noah here. There are a bunch of really wonderful bits in this interview between Alice Wong and Ed Yong about Yong’s new book, An Immense World. Yong is easily one of the best science writers in the business. His COVID coverage for The Atlantic throughout the pandemic was amazing, and his first book,
I used to think the English language was weak especially when you hear stuff like “Arabic has over 100 words for camel” and especially after a psychedelic trip. Anyone that has a trip says something along the lines of “the English language doesn’t have the vocabulary to describe it”.
And then I read this that changed my opinion entirely:
I used to think the English language was weak especially when you hear stuff like “Arabic has over 100 words for camel” and especially after a psychedelic trip. Anyone that has a trip says something along the lines of “the English language doesn’t have the vocabulary to describe it”.
And then I read this that changed my opinion entirely:
http://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary