Idiom Savant Slang As it is Slung by Dunn, Jerry Camarillo - 1997

New York U. S. A.: Henry Holt & Company. As New in Fine dust jacket 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Marfree, acidfree F/Fine 1stEd; no names, not marked-in, underscored, clearance or discard. Mails from NYC usually within 12 hours. ; 9.8 x 6.5 x 1.2 inches; 296 pages; \nOnline Rev: Forget French and Spanish; it's time to keep up with the new English: the slang cooked up by pilots, lawyers, pot smokers, and pickpockets to keep us in the dark. In biker lingo, a scab is bacon; to garbage collectors, maggots are colorfully known as motorized rice; and there's a fine list of typographical symbols that e-mailers use to convey expressions (for example, : -D is a big smile, and 8-) is a smile from a person wearing glasses) . Learning the idioms of 97 subcultures should keep your vocabulary au courant till they realize you're onto them and concoct a whole new batch. "Enjoyable look into America's language, May 8, 2000 \nBy Leslie Curtis (Mesa, Arizona USA) -\nWhat fun! Any fans of the English language or American pop culture will enjoy this reference book of common (and not so common) slang. I really enjoyed the origins of slang terms, which Mr. Dunn provides for many of the entries. \nGaining insight into the private language of these professions, sports, and hobbies was very interesting, and many quite humourous. Some could offend, however, and the book is not recommended for children. \n\nOne suggestion I would have made to Mr. Dunn is to have used periods to clarify acronyms that are pronounced by the letters (D. O. A. ) and no periods when they are pronounced as a word (NASA) , as I was confused as to how some terms were to be pronounced (all acronyms are listed without periods) . \n\nI'm hoping there will be other editions of this book, as I'm sure there are many other lexicons in American culture to be explored. .