We're given here only the Greek and Italian (Latin) history and their overwhelming sense of importance in the big wide world. Despite existing, active and thriving worlds of other earlier (or at least developing at same time) the great ancient cultures in Egypt, Africa and Mesopotamia regions !
Funny little book, that aspired to be interesting and open up some of languages' history and development, but didn't succeed. This time.
Written well, but difficult to understand to non-professional reader.
I had finished the book now and not to my expectations. What you read all through the 75 % of the material, at the end turns out to be a total lie, a farce. ... The rendition started well, but ended tactlessly, unreasonable and in bad taste.
The story/tale is categorized so very properly for this work by John Sweet. It reads pretty well and is written cleanly, without grammatical or punctual errors (practically) and interestingly. The only minus is that when I come to the most relevant and intriguing parts of the book, the story stops abruptly and goes in the other direction - history of similar situation or places had been...and thus interrupts the tale/story's narrative. Good though, are some of the historical notations: such as Inheritance played out for women in families of 18th Century. That the facts when women mostly "got skipped" in the receiving their lawful inheritance from their lawful (departed) husbands. Instead their money and etc went to their sons. But what's shocking, that today that practice repeats itself, at times. Still !!! I am still reading this book and hope to find a logical satisfying ending.
