Peter G TripodesPeter Tripodes is a second generation immigrant both of whose parents were born in the tiny island Ikaria in the Aegean Sea, and who maintained in America the ways of the island as best they could. One aspect of maintaining the island's ways was thatno one in the household spoke English and, as a consequence, Peter Tripodes spoke only Greek until the age of six when he began to learn English from other children who were not Greek, a circumstance that created in him a lifelong interest in the study of the structure of language as it pertains to how one comes to understand spoken and written speech. His other interests include the study of the structure of reasoning as it is dealt with in philosophy and mathematics, two fields in which he earned advanced degrees. He is presently retired and lives in Venice, California. Read More Read Less