Quote of the day
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content … it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Born: December 2, 1940 (age 84)
Bio: Elizabeth Wayland Barber is an American author and expert on textiles, as well as Professor emerita of archaeology and linguistics at Occidental College.
Known for:
- The mummies of Ürümchi (1999)
- Prehistoric textiles (1991)
- When they severed earth from sky (2004)