Download or read book I Smirt You Stooze They Krump written by Justin Crozier and published by HarperCollins (UK). This book was released on 2006 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Tina at the Silent Disco' contains the very latest additions to the English language. Drawn from the Collins Word Web and the Collins Wordexchange, it is the most up-to-the-minute guide to evolving language.Collins has always excelled at providing up-to-date language in its dictionaries through its sophisticated language-monitoring resources. Now, Tina at the Silent Disco focuses specifically on the newest additions to the language, combining up-to-the-minute vocabulary with the colourful stories behind the next generation of English words.So, if you like to keep your finger on the pulse of the biggest, boldest, fastest-changing language on the planet, this is the year's must-have book.*Tina n Chiefly US a slang term for metamphetamine [from sixteenth the fraction of an ounce in which the drug is commonly sold illicitly]**silent disco n a form of music event at which the music is broadcast to wireless headphones worn by the attendees, thereby ensuring that those in the vicinity of the event are not troubled by noise pollution
Download or read book Lexicography and Terminology written by Olga Karpova and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book contains a collection of works devoted to current trends in theoretical and practical lexicography, terminology and terminography. All papers are divided into two main sections. Part I: Lexicography deals with analysis of historical and typological problems in lexicography with special reference to English, Italian, Russian and Southern African dictionaries for general- and special- purposes. The main focus is given to the description of principles in lexicographic presentation of non-equivalent lexics, rhyming slang, idioms, clichés and gender nominations of people in bilingual and monolingual dictionaries. Part II: Terminology and Terminography is devoted to description of the current tendencies observed in terminology and terminography studies with special reference to modern European languages such as English, Russian, Norwegian, etc. Terms of different special domains are viewed from the angle of the latest achievements of modern science, cognitive linguistics in particular. It reveals specific features of terminological word-combinations, terms in colloquial use, peculiarities of terms belonging to newly formed Languages for Special purposes, typical features of recently appeared LSPs and presentations of new dictionaries’ projects of different subject areas. This part reveals international nature of current tendencies in terminology studies and shows the national ways of their functioning and presentation in special dictionaries.
Download or read book A Bit of This and a Bit of That written by Michael R. Whitcomb and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Bit Of This And A Bit Of That is the second story told using no word longer than four letters. Like the first, it was spawned from a classroom exercise in Australia where the author taught for almost 30 years. From the first book This Is As Big As It Gets Jake returns to his friends Paul and Jane who are now married and have a son, Andy. Between them, they help Jake to adjust to the loss of... well, read the book and find out. Their journey not only takes them widdershins (a colourful word for counter-clockwise) around England but also into a world of birds and a world beyond this one.
Download or read book The Secret Life of Words written by Henry Hitchings and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Secret Life of Words" is a wide-ranging account not only of the history of English language and vocabulary, but also of how words witness history, reflect social change, and remind societies of its past.
Download or read book Garner on Language and Writing written by Bryan A. Garner and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2009 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1987 appearance of A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage, Bryan A. Garner has proved to be a versatile and prolific writer on legal-linguistic subjects. This collection of his essays shows both profound scholarship and sharp wit. The essays cover subjects as wide-ranging as learning to write, style, persuasion, contractual and legislative drafting, grammar, lexicography, writing in law school, writing in law practice, judicial writing, and all the literature relating to these diverse subjects.
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Download or read book Lexical Innovation written by Karl Sornig and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to borrowing from various foreign sources, the main origins of slang terms are the activation and revitalization of existing morphological and lexical material. Metaphorical manipulation of lexical items, as the main device used for the production of slangisms, shows remarkable similarities in languages otherwise quite different from each other. Slang is analyzed as a kind of substandard language variation which any full-fledged language is bound to develop because it is experimental in that it is born from insubordination and protest against the stress experienced in the speech communities of large cities and is always characterized by that element of playfulness which is the hallmark of creative language in general.
Download or read book New Words written by Jonathon Green and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An A-Z of words which have entered the English language since the 1960s. With over 2000 entries and 4000 definitions, this book reflects the preoccupations and characters of the three decades, from the Age of Aquarius to yuppies and dinkies to nanotechnology.
Download or read book The Superior Person s Book of Words written by Peter Bowler and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1985 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will teach you the practical riches of saying it well with good words, neglected words, precise words for vocabular exaltation.
Download or read book Phishing written by Rachael Lininger and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-05-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Phishing" is the hot new identity theft scam. An unsuspecting victim receives an e-mail that seems to come from a bank or other financial institution, and it contains a link to a Web site where s/he is asked to provide account details. The site looks legitimate, and 3 to 5 percent of people who receive the e-mail go on to surrender their information-to crooks. One e-mail monitoring organization reported 2.3 billion phishing messages in February 2004 alone. If that weren't enough, the crooks have expanded their operations to include malicious code that steals identity information without the computer user's knowledge. Thousands of computers are compromised each day, and phishing code is increasingly becoming part of the standard exploits. Written by a phishing security expert at a top financial institution, this unique book helps IT professionals respond to phishing incidents. After describing in detail what goes into phishing expeditions, the author provides step-by-step directions for discouraging attacks and responding to those that have already happened. In Phishing, Rachael Lininger: Offers case studies that reveal the technical ins and outs of impressive phishing attacks. Presents a step-by-step model for phishing prevention. Explains how intrusion detection systems can help prevent phishers from attaining their goal-identity theft. Delivers in-depth incident response techniques that can quickly shutdown phishing sites.
Download or read book Wondering about Words written by Judith Andreyev and published by Editions Bréal. This book was released on 2005 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Words written by Heidi Harley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Words is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the study of English words from a theoretically informed linguistic perspective. accessibly written to give students a command of basic theory, skills in analyzing English words, and the foundation needed for more advanced study in linguistic theory or lexicology covers basic introductory material and investigates the structure of English vocabulary introduces students to the technical study of words from relevant areas of linguistics: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics and psycholinguistics
Download or read book Internet Marketing SEO Advertising written by Nicolae Sfetcu and published by MultiMedia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for online marketers, advertisers and publishers, to increase the digital marketing and optimize their costs and benefits. Internet marketing, also known as digital marketing, web marketing, online marketing, search marketing or e-marketing, is the marketing (generally promotion) of products or services over the Internet. Search engine optimization (SEO) is a set of methods aimed at improving the ranking of a website in search engine listings. Generally speaking, advertising is the promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas, usually by an identified sponsor. Marketers see advertising as part of an overall promotional strategy. Other components of the promotional mix include publicity, public relations, personal selling and sales promotion. Online advertising is advertising on the Internet. This particular form of advertising is a source of revenue for an increasing number of websites and companies.
Download or read book Movers and Shakers written by John Ayto and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives a selection of the key words added to the English language in the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first. This work features an introductory essay that identifies the main historical, cultural, and scientific currents, and shows how they contributed new vocabulary to the language.
Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of New Words written by Sara Tulloch and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing words from politics, the enviromental movement, computers and technology, and other sources, Tulloch examines over 2,000 new words and phrases that have become part of our lives in the last decade, in 750 articles that provide pronunication, definition, etymology, informal history, and sample sentences. A rich history of the recent changes in the language and in our culture. Line drawings.
Download or read book Half Life Die Already written by Mark Steele and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2008 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is certainly circular. In time, we face the same struggles, reenter the same habitual cycles, and encounter the same types of frustrating people. In time, we always end up facing what we tried our darndest to evade. In fact, we spend so much time trying to avoid the inevitable that we rarely take time to learn, grow, and embrace the rough stuff. Half Life / Die Already suggests that the route to real living is dying to self. With non-stop humor and out-there insights, Mark chronicles his journey-in-progress with often hilarious results. Readers of all ages will enjoy his wit and wisdom, and be inspired to just die already.
Download or read book Scamorama written by Eve Edelson and published by Disinformation Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about liars telling lies with compound interest to other liars. A -struggle is being waged on the Internet between criminals and comedians. On one side are fraudsters who con their victims out of hundreds of millions of dollars each year. The basic tool of the trade is e-mail, and the crime is the infamous "419" scam - a form of fraud whose current masters hail from Nigeria and which gets its name from section 419 of the Nigerian criminal code. It begins with an e-mail from a stranger: I am soliciting your assistance as to enable my family round up the remains of our life. Following the death of my husband Sani Abacha, former head of state of Nigeria, the new president has turned the country against us . . . I will be grateful if you could receive my last $50 million for safe keeping. I will give you 10% as a commission and to cover any expenses . . . On the other side of the struggle, pranksters from around the world are writing back to scammers strictly to waste their time. The resulting literary genre is -scambaiting - psychological warfare for clowns. Some anti-scammers go further, breaking into scammers? e-mail accounts to warn off their victims, and helping law enforcement. This book documents a weird form of cultural exchange made possible by the Internet. It is a hilarious introduction to the "419" scam, with correspondences between scammers and people who love to yank their chains.
