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.
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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