Anna Wierzbicka, Professor of Linguistics, Australian National University and author of 'Imprisoned by English, The Hazards of English as a Default Language, written in Natural semantic metalanguage (NSM), the universally convertible currency of communication, which can serve as a common auxiliaryinter-language for speakers of different languages and a global means for clarifying, elucidating, storing, and comparing ideas" (194) (book review)
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Anna Wierzbicka, Professor of Linguistics, Australian National University and author of 'Imprisoned by English, The Hazards of English as a Default Language, written in Natural semantic metalanguage (NSM), the universally convertible currency of communication, which can serve as a common auxiliaryinter-language for speakers of different languages and a global means for clarifying, elucidating, storing, and comparing ideas" (194) (book review)