Dec 17, 2012

Chronicle of Higher Education Reviews "Ascent of the A-Word", by Geoffrey Nunberg

From The Chronicle of Higher Education

A Social Offender for Our Times

By Evan R. Goldstein

"What are you working on?" is academe's standard conversation starter, and for the past five years Geoffrey Nunberg has had a nonstandard response: "a book on assholes."

"You get giggles," says the linguist at the University of California at Berkeley, "or you get, 'You must have a lot of time on your hands'—the idea being that a word that vulgar and simple can't possibly be worth writing about."...

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