Language Lover's Puzzle Book
by Alex Bellos · first published 2020
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…by Steven Strogatz "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofstadtler "The Annotated Gödel: A Reader's Guide to his Classic Paper on Logic and Incompleteness" by Hal Prince "The Language Lover's Puzzle Book : A World Tour of Languages and Alphabets in 100 Amazing Puzzles (Alex Bellos Puzzle Books) " "To Mock a Mockingbird" by Raymond Smullyan
on “Ask HN: Interesting courses/books to counter a looming burnout?” ↗If you like these types of puzzles, I'd suggest getting The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book, which is a very accessible curated collection of ILO problems.
on “International Linguistics Olympiad – Sample Problems” ↗I started looking this up after reading this puzzle [0] in The Economist (itself taken from the beginning of Alex Bellos' The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book [1]): > Now consider this problem, derived from these Japanese phrases: boru niko (two balls), tsuna nihon (two ropes), uma nito (two horses), kami nimai (two sheets of paper), ashi gohon (five legs),…
on “Japanese Counter Word” ↗