Beginning with the V. Brondal quote-
A language is a purely abstract entity,
A norm that stands above indviduals,
A set of essential types,
Which speech articulates in an infinite number of ways
I set about creating a book that not only followed the quote but explores the nature of language and its many variations.
Taking the original quote into Babelfish I translated it into a variety of foreign languages and back to English to see what could be lost and/or gained in the process.
The results were surprising. Due to the quality of translation provided my Babelfish and the technical difficulty that different languages might have with the words within the quote they became distorted. This revealed interesting new avenues and perspectives on the original quotation.
