“Goodbye” becomes “Sayonara ... forcing the brain—especially one that knows more than two languages—to work in a different way, but the exercise is rewarding, nonetheless.

“Goodbye to Language,” by contrast ... and typically used for the mass amplification of spectacle can, in different hands, reveal a treasure trove of unexplored aesthetic possibilities.

To think, I told her, that thousands of different languages conceive time and space differently. So what? she replied. What a lot of wasted energy to end up saying the same thing. Judging by world ...