Renowned linguist Geoffrey Nunberg is the author of several nonfiction works, including The Years of Talking Dangerously, Going Nuclar, and Talking Right.
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It first surfaced in the gripes of GIs during World War II and was captured early on by the typewriter of a young Norman Mailer. Within a generation it had become a basic notion of our everyday moral life, replacing older reproaches like lout and heel wit... SEE MORE