# Interested in languages? Stay the hell away from Bill Bryson!

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 7, 2003, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interested-in-languages-stay-the-hell-away-from-bill-bryson/180308 "2003-06-07T17:40:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interested-in-languages-stay-the-hell-away-from-bill-bryson/180308/41 "2003-06-10T18:05:18Z")

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I’m not talking about his tongue-in-cheek comments, which are obvious.

I’m talking about historical background he presents in his travel books, which is often wildly inaccurate (and not in humorous way).

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