num_pages: 224
description: It is possible, Sagan says, to damage the brain in precisely such a way that the victim will lose the ability to understand the passive or to devise prepositional phrases or something like that. No cases are cited, unfortunately--it would be fun to chat with some victim--but the whole idea is attractive, because if it were true it would explain many things.
language: English
title: Less Than Words Can Say: The Underground Grammarian
titlecomplete: Less Than Words Can Say: The Underground Grammarian
genres: Literature, Education, Writing, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Language
ratings_count: 153
publisher: Little, Brown