That should be a word, a language lover's guide to choregasms, povertunity, brattling, and 250 other much-needed terms for the modern world
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That should be a word, a language lover's guide to choregasms, povertunity, brattling, and 250 other much-needed terms for the modern world
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non fiction
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That should be a word
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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a language lover's guide to choregasms, povertunity, brattling, and 250 other much-needed terms for the modern world
Summary
Finally there's a word for it: Fidgital-excessively checking one's devices. Martyrmony-staying married out of duty. Author of the highly popular "That Should Be a Word" feature in the New York Times Magazine, Lizzie Skurnick delights word lovers with razor-sharp social commentary delivered via clever neologisms. That Should Be a Word is a compendium of 244 of Skurnick's wittiest wordplays-more than half of them new-arranged in ingenious diagrams detailing their interrelationships. Complete with definitions, pronunciations, usage examples, and illustrations, That Should Be a Word features words on our obsession with food: carbiter-one who asserts that someone else cannot be hungry. On social media, like twiticule-to mock someone in 140 characters. On the modern family, like brattle-to discuss one's children at great length, which leads to words like spamily-Facebook or Twitter updates about kids-and spawntourage-a group of approaching strollers. From highlighting the profound financial anxiety of a post-recession society (bangst) to mocking the hyper-vain celebrity circle that abstains from anything of import (celebracy), That Should Be a Word delves deep into all the most humorous, and maddening, aspects of life in the 21st century. Lizzie Skurnick is an author, a columnist, and the editor in chief of Lizzie Skurnick Books, an imprint that brings back YA classics for teen-lit fans. She has also written ten books for teens. A contributor to NPR, The New York Times Book Review, and many other publications, she is the author of Shelf Discovery, a memoir of teen reading inspired by her "Fine Lines" column on Jezebel.com. She lives in Jersey City, New Jersey
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