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Expletive Deleted : A Good Look at Bad Language
Expletive Deleted A Good Look at Bad Language
Author: Ruth Wajnryb
Have we always "sworn like sailors"? Has creative cursing developed because we can't just slug people when they make us angry? And if such verbal aggression is universal, why is it that some languages (Japanese, for instance) supposedly do not contain any nasty words? Throughout the twentieth century there seems to have been a dramatic escalatio...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780743274340
ISBN-10: 0743274342
Publication Date: 7/5/2005
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Free Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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