Gulliver’s Travels (Annotated)

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How were children educated at lilliput??? Ellen I would imagine they were educated in a very small school with very small books written in their language, perhaps learning state-sponsored …more I would imagine they were educated in a very small school with very small books written in their language, perhaps learning state-sponsored information about which side of the egg is best to crack. Load 4 more questions. I'm looking for a Gulliver's Travels edition with footnotes that explain the satire and how it related to the government and society of his time.

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His forays into the fields of science and literature have brought recognition far beyond his sphere of first renown, science fiction. The latest venture, an exhaustive annotation of Swift's classic satire, is a welcome addition to the ever-burgeoning Asimov collection. The most striking aspect of this book is its almost cumbersomely minute attention to detail. Asimov provides the reader with extensive historical background on the Britain of Swift's day, word origins and derivations, and, most unusually, checks for the accuracy of scientific and geographical references.

For every page of text, Asimov has at least a page of absorbing notes. The marginal notations are alluring in the way trivia is; one finds oneself eagerly gobbling up the tidbits Asimov has so bountifully provided.

For instance, when Gulliver arrives in Lilliput and attempts to communicate with the little people, he tries lingua franca. This, according to Asimov, is:. In general, any jargon consisting of words from several different languages, used between people with no common language. One modern lingua franca is "pidgin English," used in various places in the Pacific.

The term "pidgin English" is itself a corruption of "business English," the language in which different people are forced to do business. The language Gulliver used was one that grew up in the Mediterranean, when Europeans and Muslims tried to trade, in a language mixture containing Italian, French, Spanish, and Arabic.

Lingua franca originally meant "Frankish language ," since to the Muslims all west-Europeans were "Franks.