Idiom Savant: Slang As It Is Slung - Hardcover

Dunn, Jerry Camarillo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805050949 ISBN 13: 9780805050943

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 1997

Synopsis

Provides a colorful, categorized book of slang as it is spoken by various professions, such as nurses, pilots, lawyers, and salespeople, with full explanations of the proper meaning of each phrase or word being used.

About this title

Review:

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.

About the Author:

Jerry Dunn is the author of four previous books and a regular contributor to many national magazines and newspapers. He lives in Ojai, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0805050949
• ISBN 13: 9780805050943
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296