Geoffrey Nunberg is a linguist who teaches at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Information and . The author of Going Nucular, Talking Right, and The Way We Talk Now, Nunberg lives in San Francisco, California.
Geoffrey Nunberg is a linguist who teaches at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Information and is the former chair of the American Heritage Dictionary’s Usage Panel.
I love linguists, and I especially love Geoffrey Nunberg. I'm always entertained by him, but this book - essays from the last years of the Bush presidency - fall a little flat now. Taken in one large dose instead of the intended individual pieces, it's too much to take in. But gems abound.
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Yet as advertisers and marketers know, our mistrust of words doesn't inoculate us against them. These are the years of talking dangerously, and Nunberg is a sure guide to the pitfalls.
Occasionally one wishes for more detailed argument than was possible in these brief commissions (Nunberg on "nonapologies" is fine, but lacks the forensic energy of Adams's elucidation of the slang nonapology, "My bad").
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There has never been, Nunberg writes, an age as wary as ours of the tricks words can play, obscuring distinctions and smoothing over the corrugations of the actual worl. .Yet as advertisers and marketers know, our mistrust of words doesn't inoculate us against them. These are the years of talking dangerously, and Nunberg is a sure guide to the pitfalls
But it can also deceive and deflect.
But it can also deceive and deflect. Berkeley's School of Information.
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Nunberg, talking about libraries, says: "Most scholars will tell you that a lot of the most interesting books they've read are ones they happened on when they were looking for something else. The Years of Talking Dangerously is exactly that type of book. What was the American Dialect Society's 2008 word of the year? "Bailout.