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          Arika Okrent was born in Chicago and became fascinated with languages at an early age....

          An Interview with Arika Okrent, author of Highly Irregular

          Arika Okrent has an undergraduate degree from Carleton College, an M.A.

          in Linguistics from Gallaudet University, and a Ph.D. in Psycholinguistics from University of Chicago.

          Arika Okrent: Followers, Following, 16 Research papers.

        1. Arika Okrent has an undergraduate degree from Carleton College, an MA in Linguistics from Gallaudet University, and a Ph.D.
        2. Arika Okrent was born in Chicago and became fascinated with languages at an early age.
        3. The history of the human impulse to build a better language.
        4. Arika Okrent is a linguist and the author of In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers.

          5. A winner of the Linguistic Society of America’s Linguistic Journalism Award in 2016 and a former contributing editor at Mental Floss, she writes about language for a popular audience.

          She is the author of the 2009 book In the Land of Invented Languages, a sparkling tour of artificial languages from Blissymbolics to Esperanto to Klingon.

          Her latest book is Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, andDough Don’t Rhyme and Other Oddities of the English Language, an illustrated history of English that reveals why the language is so weird.

          Ed Battistella: How did you get interested in linguistics?

          Arika Okrent: I was always interested in languages, their rules, and how they differ from each other.

          I didn’t discover linguistics until after co