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Synopsis
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.
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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.
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Jerry Dunn is the author of four previous books and a regular contributor to many national magazines and newspapers. He lives in Ojai, California.
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- PublisherHolt Paperbacks
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0805050930
- ISBN 13 9780805050936
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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