Simon Prentis

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Introduction I'm the author of SPEECH! How Language Made Us Human, a book I published in 2021 after thirty years working with different cultures as an interpreter and translator in over fifty countries. It's the story of how we come to have language in the first place, how we've used it, what it does to us, and where it takes us from here. Given how important it is to us, yet how little we think about it (and how easily it divides us), that's something I believe we'd all benefit from giving some more thought to...