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Short cuts: a guide to oaths, ring tones, ransom notes, famous last words, and other forms of minimalist communication

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Celebrating our long history of compact speech, this book offers a well-researched account of this unsung corner of the linguistic world, inspiring a new appreciation of the wondrously varied forms of our briefest exchanges.

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Product Details
Oxford University Press
0199750750 / 9780199750757
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
302.22
26/08/2010
English
296 pages
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