Comments on: Outwitting History http://www.5minutesforbooks.com/2022/outwitting-history/ Book reviews for children and adults Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:37:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Deanna/ibeeeg http://www.5minutesforbooks.com/2022/outwitting-history/comment-page-1/#comment-283616 Deanna/ibeeeg Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:38:47 +0000 http://www.5minutesforbooks.com/?p=2022#comment-283616 This sounds like a very interesting book. My brother knows and speaks Hebrew and lives in Israel. I think it would be interesting to see what he thinks of this book...a possible gift? maybe. Thanks for bringing this book to my attention. I am going to check this book out. Thanks. This sounds like a very interesting book. My brother knows and speaks Hebrew and lives in Israel. I think it would be interesting to see what he thinks of this book…a possible gift? maybe.

Thanks for bringing this book to my attention. I am going to check this book out.
Thanks.

]]> By: Heather J. http://www.5minutesforbooks.com/2022/outwitting-history/comment-page-1/#comment-283277 Heather J. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:26:27 +0000 http://www.5minutesforbooks.com/?p=2022#comment-283277 I read/reviewed this book a while back and I really loved it. It was an amazing look at what one person with a passion can do - and he really did a lot. I read/reviewed this book a while back and I really loved it. It was an amazing look at what one person with a passion can do – and he really did a lot.

]]> By: edj http://www.5minutesforbooks.com/2022/outwitting-history/comment-page-1/#comment-283267 edj Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:06:49 +0000 http://www.5minutesforbooks.com/?p=2022#comment-283267 We lived in Mauritania for a while--there, they speak an arabic dialect called hassiniya which isn't really a written language. They also have mostly an oral culture. One of the old storytellers died while we were there, and someone said it was as if a library had burned down. His stories were lost to time; no one had written them down. We lived in Mauritania for a while–there, they speak an arabic dialect called hassiniya which isn’t really a written language. They also have mostly an oral culture. One of the old storytellers died while we were there, and someone said it was as if a library had burned down. His stories were lost to time; no one had written them down.

]]> By: xerocomix http://www.5minutesforbooks.com/2022/outwitting-history/comment-page-1/#comment-283062 xerocomix Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:38:18 +0000 http://www.5minutesforbooks.com/?p=2022#comment-283062 Wow, touching, very touching, many native languages are disappearing these days, I also don't know my mother tongue very well. I think this is a book I should definitely read. May be I could get some inspiration to make an effort to learn my language. And, try to preserve it. Like, the author's trying to save yiddish!! Wow, touching, very touching, many native languages are disappearing these days, I also don’t know my mother tongue very well.
I think this is a book I should definitely read. May be I could get some inspiration to make an effort to learn my language. And, try to preserve it. Like, the author’s trying to save yiddish!!

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