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- the author of In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock
Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers and the Mad Dreamers who tried
to Build a Perfect Language
- a resident of Philadelphia
- a baker of bagels
- the wife of a chess-playing Cubs fan
- the granddaughter of Transylvanians
- the daughter of a Chicago carto-, photo-, geo- grapher
- a southpaw
- otherwise known as (hello search engines!) Erica, Erika, Alicia, Arica, Akira, Afrika, Arkia, Okren, O'krent, Oakrint, Oakrent, Orkent
- "Arika" because her parents made it up.
- "Okrent" because her Okret (with a nasalized 'e') ancestors added an 'n' somewhere on the way over from Poland.
- able to touch her tongue to her nose.
- apparently a carrier of some sort of gene for this, as her son can do it too.
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