| #2263485 in Books | PublicAffairs | 2005-06-15 | 2005-06-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.25 x1.00 x5.50l,.88 | File type: PDF | 352 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| An Interesting Read|By Michelle Braley|As someone who used be very smart but whose intelligence has slowly declined over several years of intellectual laziness, I felt better and smarter after reading this book. That said, it is a collection of articles written by the author, and several topics become redundant about half way through. I didn't really mind it, though, as the t
The words that echo through Geoffrey Nunberg's brilliant new journey across the landscape of American language evoke exactly the tenor of our times. Nunberg has a wonderful ear for the new, the comic and the absurd. He pronounces that: "‘Blog' is a syllable whose time has come," and that "You don't get to be a verb unless you're doing something right," with which he launches into the effect of Google on our collective consciousness. Nunberg hears the shifting ...
You easily download any file type for your device.Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Confrontational Times | Geoffrey Nunberg. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
