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I have been reading through my textbook for my LIN5000 - The Nature of Language class. The textbook is called An Introduction to Language and I don't mind telling you it wasn't cheap even at Amazon. What exactly makes a textbook expensive? Is it the same thing that makes CDs in Japan three times as expensive as in America?

Anyway, finished up the first chapter today and I was surprised to find a typo in the book (8th ed. p. 12). It's a simple typo, but it reads, "Listeners my become confused, tired, bored, or disgusted."

Call me cynical, but why does the eight edition of a US$66 book on language have a language error in it? On page 12? I was a little surprised.

The chapter was interesting and it did have a lot of good information in it. There was lots of lingo that I'm sure I will be throwing around comfortably in the future. I'm still in the over(and under)whelmed stage for now.

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