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It’s about English and its interactions with other languages. The bulk of the book is about the idea that repeated conquests of English speakers resulted in English becoming particularly simplified in terms of its grammar, particularly compared to related languages. There is also a substantial section on a proposed link among Celtic and English grammar, and even a section positing hyperlinks between German and Hebrew. The latter idea is primarily based on the perform of Theo Vennemann, whose ideas are discovered to be exciting but probably incorrect. For the reason that it’s McWhorter, there’s also a extended lament about the...