World of Words: The Personalities of Language

by Gary Jennings

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689706782
• ISBN13: 9780689706783
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A book which opens up a fuller understanding of language.

In this gem of a book Gary Jennings brings us to an understanding and enjoyment of the language at our finger tips. He is perhaps one of the more intelligent of American authors and in this volume he unleashes the full power of his intellect and leads us down the path of the development of our own language and several others in the process. He is at moments revelatory of his own history, letting the reader know that he in his "middle years" lived on the streets. He didn't waste even those hard times but gained a deeper understanding of the development of street speech. This book will make you work but if you do, it will leave you more intelligent, understanding and somewhat breathless