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The Years of Talking Dangerously
Geoffrey Nunberg
PublicAffairs
May 2009
On Sale: May 4, 2009
256 pages
ISBN: 1586487450
EAN: 9781586487454
Hardcover
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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 world....
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. With illuminating intelligence and
devastating humor, Nunberg decodes the changing syntax of
Time Magazine, explains why grammar buffs are drawn to
sarcasm, and deftly unpacks the telling phrases of our
national conversation, from progressive to elite to change—
not to mention national conversation itself.
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