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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Outstanding Book,
This review is from: The Life of Language: The Fascinating Ways Words are Born, Live & Die (Paperback)
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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The Life of Language: The Fascinating Ways Words are Born, Live & Die by Barbara Ann Kipfer (Paperback - July 11, 2006)
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