Frederick Bodmer (1894–1960)

Author of The Loom of Language

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Includes the names: Bodmer Frederick, Frederick Bodmer, Frederick Bodmer/ Rudolf Keller

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The Loom of Language (1944) — Author — 683 copies

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Canonical name: Bodmer, Frederick
Legal name: Bodmer, Friedrich
Birthdate: 1894-02-14
Date of death: 1960-01-02
Gender: male
Nationality: Switzerland
Country (for map): Switzerland
Education: University of Zurich
Occupations: professor
Organizations: University of Cape Town
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of… by Frederick Bodmer

This is too awesome not to own. I guess this is the text that set Sun Ra on his whole freaky language trip? Anyways it's not the kind of book I can't read cover to cover but even a partial reading gives you a much better and more holistic sense of how language works.