I indulged myself and challenged my mind by reading this brilliant book. The idea that we all have the same minds, that language is an instinct makes linguistics a domain where science can be combined with fun. "A pig, standing upright, asks a farmer, "What's for dinner? Not me, I hope." The farmer says to his companion, "That's the one that received the human gene implant." " Now, who says Steven Pinker isn't a "studmuffin"? :D

A deceptively clearly written book on intricacies of language that even as an amateur linguist were painfully obscure, the Language Instinct is alternately interesting and utterly baffling as one reads just a single chapter. The writing is clear but can become suddenly technical, which throws off a would-be reader. I'd recommend the book as a serious source of study, but perhaps not to a casual peruser for light reading.

Such a brilliant book on the language and how it develops and thrive

Highly relevant work on the domain of language from an evolutionary perspective, written by one of the most relevant academics in the domain of cognitive and evolutionary psychology. Pinker goes down deeper on the construction of language, searching its origin, its source, presenting a set of challenging ideas about our species and how we came to be what we are today.