The title saga

Back in February I posted about Michael Erard’s travails in (re)titling his book on hyperpolyglots, Babel No More (subtitle: The Search for the World’s Most Extraordinary Language Learners) for his UK publisher, Gerald Duckworth. Duckworth’s disliked the American main title and argued for Superlinguists instead, but Michael (and other linguists, including me) objected. In the end, … Continue reading The title saga