Words on the Move: Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally)

McWhorter, John

ISBN 10: 1250143780 ISBN 13: 9781250143785

Verlag: Picador, 2017

Sprache: Englisch

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Titel

Words on the Move: Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally)

Verlag

Picador

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

1250143780

ISBN-13

9781250143785

Einband

paperback

Zustand

As New

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37�Unzen

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Fiction/Literature

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Language is always changing, but the way English is spoken today rubs many of us the wrong way. Whether it’s the use of literally to mean “figuratively,” or the way young people use LOL or business jargon like What’s the ask?—it often seems as if the language is deteriorating before our eyes.

But the truth is different and a lot less scary. Drawing examples from everyday life and employing a generous helping of humor, John McWhorter shows that these shifts are common to all languages, and that we should embrace these changes, not condemn them.

He opens our eyes to the surprising backstories to words and expressions we use every day. Did you know that silly once meant “blessed”? Or that ought was the original past tense of owe? Or that the suffix -ly in adverbs is actually a remnant of the word like?

In Words on the Move, McWhorter encourages us to marvel at the dynamism and resilience of the English language, and his book offers a delightful journey where we see that words are ever on the move and our lives are all the richer for it.

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John McWhorter is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University and is the author of The Language Hoax, The Power of Babel, and Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue. He writes for TIME, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic, and his articles have also appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and The Daily Beast.

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