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Publisher
Fairfield Language Technologies
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A beginner-level French language course featuring graphics, sounds, and text presented in progressively more challenging tutorials. Includes dictation and voice recording capabilities, twenty-two lessons of instructional material for each language, phrases spoken by native speakers, and pictures to establish the meaning of words and phrases.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Smart as hell and funny as fuck, this book explains why we can't stop swearing and what it tells us about our language and brains. Everyone swears. Only the rare individual can avoid ever letting slip an expletive. And yet, we ban the words from television and insist that polite people excise them from their vocabularies. That's a fucking shame. Not only is swearing colorful, fun, and often powerfully apt, as linguist and cognitive scientist Benjamin...