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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 422
EAN num: 9780375721137
ISBN number: 0375721134
Label: Random House Reference
Manufacturer: Random House Reference
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 400
Printing Date: July 11, 2006
Publishing house: Random House Reference
Release Date: July 11, 2006
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If time travelers from the nineteenth century dropped in on us, our strange vocabulary would shock them just as much as our TVs, cars, and computers. Society changes, and so does its word stock. The Life of Language reveals how pop culture, business, technology, and other forces of globalization expand and enrich the English language, forming thousands of new words every year. In this fascinating and jargon-free guide, lexicographers Kipfer and Steinmetz reconstruct the births of thousands of words, including infantries, poz, mobs, Soho, dinks, choo choos, frankenfoods, LOL, narcs and perps.
· A word lover’s guide to etymology, written in a fun, informal, and accessible style
· An excellent resource for vocabulary building; a word's root helps readers understand its meaning
· Beautifully packaged paperback with French flaps
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The Life of Language is an outstanding book. Its authors have done a masteful job of exploring the origins of words we use every day. In a lively, accessible writing style they consider not just the historical roots of our language but more modern phenomena such as what they call "acronymania," the increasing prevlalence of acronyms in contemporary discourse, and "cyberspeak," the many ways we combine "cyber" with other wrods to create new terminology ("cybersex," "cyberpunk," "cyberphobia," etc.) Anyone interested in the stories behind our words will be glad they bought this book.
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