An edition of The Evasion-English dictionary (2003)
The Evasion-English dictionary
By Maggie Balistreri,Maggie Balistreri
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Publish Date
2003
Publisher
Melville House Pub.
Language
eng
Pages
110
Description:
The Evasion-English Dictionary is a wicked collection of euphemisms in contemporary speech. A taxonomy of the vexing "like" and "whatever" feature categories of these crutch words, revealing the words' variety and possibilities for manipulation.
subjects: Euphemism, Dictionaries, English language, slang, language, like, whatever, actually, dictionary, humor, satire, linguistics, speech, speech acts, evasion, evasive, sorry, sorry-not-sorry, sorry not sorry, funny, essays, feminist