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Talk on the Wild Side : Why Language Won't Do As It's Told Surrealism & Dada like 'biffsquiggled' and 'whizzpopping' toAuthor: Greene, Lane Language Published on 1 August 2019 by Profile Books Ltd (Economist Books). Paperback 240 pages 131 x 198 x 15 234g Language is a wild animal: rough, ambiguous, inconsistent in countless ways. But that just makes it all the more tempting to tame it. Many have tried, from sticklers for supposedly correct grammar to inventors of supposedly perfect languages; from software engineers working on machine translation to governments that