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Idiom Savant: Slang As It Is Slung
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by:
Dunn, Jerry Camarillo
Dunn, Jerry
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Publisher:
Henry Holt and Company
Published: June 1, 1997
ISBN: 0805050949
Format:Hardcover
Pages:296
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Book Description
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Forget French and Spanish; it's time to keep up with the new English: the slang cooked up by pilots, lawyers, pot smokers, and pickpockets to keep us in the dark. In biker lingo, a scab is bacon; to garbage collectors, maggots are colorfully
known as motorized rice; and there's a fine list of typographical symbols that e-mailers use to convey expressions (for example, :-D is a big smile, and 8-) is a smile from a person wearing glasses). Learning the idioms of 97 subcultures should keep your
vocabulary au courant till they realize you're onto them and concoct a whole new batch.
Product Description:
The colorful and unique lingo of more than seventy American subcultures from animators to zine readers
Idiom Savant provides
an intriguing insight into our language and into American culture as a whole. It is an indispensable aid to writers and as entertaining as the popular trivia books.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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