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Barbara Ann Kipfer, Sol Steinmetz
388 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 0375721134
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
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If time travelers from the nineteenth century dropped in on us, our strange vocabulary would shock them just as much as our TVs, cars, and computers. Society changes, and so does its word stock. The Life of Language reveals how pop culture, busine...
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Barbara Ann Kipfer, Sol Steinmetz
388 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 0375721134
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
Publication date: Not specified
Description
If time travelers from the nineteenth century dropped in on us, our strange vocabulary would shock them just as much as our TVs, cars, and computers. Society changes, and so does its word stock. The Life of Language reveals how pop culture, busine...