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Ralph Keyes
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Successful word coinage—those that stay in currency for a good long time—tend to conceal their beginnings. We take them at face value and rarely when and where they were first minted. Engaging, illuminating, and authoritative, Ralph Keyes' The Hidden History of Coined Words explores the etymological underworld of terms and expressions and uncovers plenty of hidden gems.
He also finds some fascinating patterns, such as that successful neologisms are as likely to be created by chance as by design. A remarkable number of new words were coined whimsically, originally intended to troll or taunt. Casual wisecracking produced software, crowdsource, and blog. More than a few resulted from happy accidents, such as typos, mistranslations, and mishearing (bigly and buttonhole), or from being taken entirely out of context (robotics). Neologizers (a Thomas Jefferson coinage) include not just scholars and writers but cartoonists, columnists, children's book authors. Keyes considers all contenders, while also leading us through the fray between new word partisans, and those who resist them strenuously. He concludes with advice about how to make your own successful coinage.
The Hidden History of Coined Words will appeal not just to word mavens but history buffs, trivia contesters, and anyone who loves the immersive power of language.
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- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 275
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 236
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 236
In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert David Crystal draws on words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences, and events that have helped to shape our vernacular since the first definitively English word was written down in the fifth century ("roe", in case you are wondering). Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient words ("loaf") to cutting edge ("twittersphere") and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ("and", "what") to the more fanciful ("fopdoodle"), Crystal takes us along the winding byways of language.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Random but entertaining
- De Sean en 04-01-13
De: David Crystal
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The Untold Story of the Talking Book
- De: Matthew Rubery
- Narrado por: Jim Denison
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Histories of the book often move straight from the codex to the digital screen. Left out of that familiar account is nearly 150 years of audio recordings. Recounting the fascinating history of audio-recorded literature, Matthew Rubery traces the path of innovation from Edison's recitation of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" for his tinfoil phonograph in 1877 to the first novel-length talking books made for blinded World War I veterans to today's billion-dollar audiobook industry.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Historical Review of Audiobooks
- De Jean en 07-20-17
De: Matthew Rubery
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Knowing What We Know
- The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 14 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 119
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—this is Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds. Throughout this fascinating tour, Winchester forces us to ponder what rational humans are becoming. What good is all this knowledge if it leads to lack of thought? What is information without wisdom?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Colorful anecdotes but tiring after a while.
- De Thumb Guy en 05-03-23
De: Simon Winchester
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The Prodigal Tongue
- The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English
- De: Lynne Murphy
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
- Duración: 11 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
"If Shakespeare were alive today, he'd sound like an American." "English accents are the sexiest." "Americans have ruined the English language." "Technology means everyone will have to speak the same English." Such claims about the English language are often repeated but rarely examined. Professor Lynne Murphy is on the linguistic front line. In The Prodigal Tongue she explores the fiction and reality of the special relationship between British and American English.
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2 out of 5 stars
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TOO MUCH BITTERNESS
- De Tina en 08-27-20
De: Lynne Murphy
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The Pun Also Rises
- How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics
- De: John Pollack
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 4 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 54
The Pun Also Rises is an authoritative yet playful exploration of a practice that is common, in one form or another, to virtually every language on earth. At once entertaining and educational, this engaging book answers fundamental questions: Just what is a pun, and why do people make them? How did punning impact the development of human language, and how did that drive creativity and progress? And why, after centuries of decline, does the pun still matter?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Punderful Little Book
- De B. Lane en 01-10-13
De: John Pollack
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The Image, 50th Anniversary Edition
- A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
- De: Daniel J. Boorstin, Douglas Rushkoff - afterword
- Narrado por: Timothy Danko
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of "pseudo-events" - events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported - and the contemporary definition of celebrity as "a person who is known for his well-knownness". Since then Daniel J. Boorstin's prophetic vision of an America inundated by its own illusions has become an essential resource for any listeners who wants to distinguish the manifold deceptions of our culture from its few enduring truths.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Boorstin’s deep Conservative mindset reaches through every example in this book.
- De Christine en 10-12-20
De: Daniel J. Boorstin, y otros
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Language Intelligence
- Lessons on Persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga
- De: Joseph J. Romm
- Narrado por: Drew Birdseye
- Duración: 4 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 64
Joseph Romm, one of Rolling Stone magazine’s top "100 Agents of Change", has focused his talents on helping us all to increase our language intelligence and to better understand the art of persuasion. Romm demonstrates that you don't have to be an expert to vastly improve your ability to communicate. He has pulled together the secrets of the greatest communicators in history to show how you can apply these tools to your writing, speaking, blogging - even your Tweeting.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Liberal Propaganda
- De Craig en 02-05-13
De: Joseph J. Romm
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Making History
- The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
- De: Richard Cohen
- Narrado por: Richard Cohen
- Duración: 26 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
There are many stories we can spin about previous ages, but which accounts get told? And by whom? Is there even such a thing as “objective” history? In this “witty, wise, and elegant” (The Spectator), book, Richard Cohen reveals how professional historians and other equally significant witnesses, such as the writers of the Bible, novelists, and political propagandists, influence what becomes the accepted record. Cohen argues, for example, that some historians are practitioners of “Bad History” and twist reality to glorify themselves or their country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Missing 20 pages from book
- De Rick, Austin en 04-23-22
De: Richard Cohen
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Author in Chief
- The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote
- De: Craig Fehrman
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 15 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
In Craig Fehrman’s groundbreaking work of history, Author in Chief, the story of America’s presidents and their books opens a rich new window into presidential biography. From volumes lost to history - Calvin Coolidge’s Autobiography, which was one of the most widely discussed titles of 1929 - to ones we know and love - Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father, which was very nearly never published - Fehrman unearths countless insights about the presidents through their literary works.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- De Jean en 03-12-20
De: Craig Fehrman
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The Age of American Unreason
- De: Susan Jacoby
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 14 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 267
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 154
Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon - one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, Jacoby surveys an antirationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual universe of "junk thought".
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting, but explanation by redescription
- De T. Andrew Poehlman en 07-15-08
De: Susan Jacoby
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Shakespeare's Library
- Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature
- De: Stuart Kells
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 76
Millions of words of scholarship have been expended on the world's most famous author and his work. And yet a critical part of the puzzle, Shakespeare's library, is a mystery. For four centuries people have searched for it: in mansions, palaces, and libraries; in riverbeds, sheep pens, and partridge coops; and in the corridors of the mind. Yet no trace of the Bard's manuscripts, books, or letters has ever been found.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Dismissed Mary Sidney Herbert without explanation
- De Lisa en 07-30-19
De: Stuart Kells
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Writing on the Wall
- Social Media: The First 2,000 Years
- De: Tom Standage
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 10 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 76
Papyrus rolls and Twitter have much in common, as each was their generation's signature means of "instant" communication. Indeed, as Tom Standage reveals in his scintillating new audiobook, social media is anything but a new phenomenon. From the papyrus letters that Roman statesmen used to exchange news across the Empire to the advent of hand-printed tracts of the Reformation to the pamphlets that spread propaganda during the American and French revolutions, Standage chronicles the increasingly sophisticated ways people shared information with each other....
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5 out of 5 stars
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technology changes, we don't
- De Andy en 12-02-13
De: Tom Standage
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American Sketches
- Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Cotter Smith
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 227
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 183
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 186
In this collection of essays, Walter Isaacson reflects on the lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, and various other interesting characters he has chronicled as a biographer and journalist. The people he writes about have an awesome intelligence, in most cases, but that is not the secret of their success.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not Really Sketches
- De DAVID en 11-04-11
De: Walter Isaacson
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Jewish Comedy
- A Serious History
- De: Jeremy Dauber
- Narrado por: Jeremy Dauber
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 178
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 154
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 154
In a major work of scholarship both erudite and very funny, Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from Biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organizing his book thematically into what he calls the seven strands of Jewish comedy - including the satirical, the witty, and the vulgar - Dauber explores the ways Jewish comedy has dealt with persecution, assimilation, and diaspora through the ages. He explains the rise and fall of popular comic archetypes such as the Jewish mother, the JAP, and the schlemiel and schlimazel.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not funny
- De supermantwo en 08-31-20
De: Jeremy Dauber
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
- The Untold History of English
- De: John McWhorter
- Narrado por: John McWhorter
- Duración: 5 h y 22 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,037
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,412
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,388
A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar. Why do we say "I am reading a catalog" instead of "I read a catalog"? Why do we say "do" at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics and more, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue distills hundreds of years of fascinating lore into one lively history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great for casual linguists
- De Bertie en 01-11-10
De: John McWhorter