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Cargando... Speaking American: How Y’all, Youse , and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guidepor Josh Katz
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Peregrinations mentioned this book in one of her posts and of course I had to immediately get it. I live in a place where I am daily questioned on how I talk, and this has fostered a fascination with the English language and accents in particular. This is a larger format book, not quite coffee table sized, but it could definitely hold its own with the art and architecture tomes. Each page features large full color heat maps, showing the prevalence for one word over another (or one pronunciation over another) in each part of the country. Some maps are mostly homogeneous ("roundabout"); some look as though someone drew a line through the country (usually an east/west line dividing north and south, of course) ("pyjamas"). MT and I had a great time comparing words and pronunciations, and laughing at the differences (and sometimes even similarities). We had fun trying to figure out his spirit state, and while it became clear that I've picked up words and pronunciations from around the country (mostly Minnesota), I was happy to see that my language still places me firmly in my home state of Florida. An interesting look at the differences between us that are fun rather than confronting and a great conversation starter. A fun read. I would have liked some more detail on some of the words (for example, I think of highway as different than freeway, and use both, and I suspect this is true for many in the small area in SE Wisconsin where freeway is common, surrounded by a sea of "highway" users.) Still, a lot of fun to peruse. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"From the creator of the New York Times dialect quiz that ignited conversations about how and why we say the words we say, a stunning and delightful exploration of American language,"--Amazon.com. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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So that's basically this book. Who says what how and what does it mean to them, displayed as a series of heat maps. It was fun to pick up my childhood town, Madison, WI, as largely an isolated bubble on most of the maps, reflecting the imported nature of most of the people there. It was sometimes hilarious to read about what things are called elsewhere. This was a webpage awhile ago and I had played with it then, but Katz has fleshed it out for the book. The result is both entertaining casual browsing and decently aesthetically appealing for a coffee table. ( )