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They have a word for it : a lighthearted lexicon of untranslatable words & phrases
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They have a word for it : a lighthearted lexicon of untranslatable words & phrases

Author: Howard Rheingold
Publisher: Louisville, KY : Sarabande Books, 2000.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary: "... more than forty familiar and obscure languages to discover genuinely useful (rather than simply odd) words that can open up new ways of understanding and experiencing life"--P. [4] of cover.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Howard Rheingold
ISBN: 096508079X 9780965080798
OCLC Number: 191685415
Description: 284 p. ; 20 cm.
Contents: Hearing Is Believing: The Cracks Between Our Worldviews -- Human Family Affairs: People Words -- You Are What You Say: Words of Power -- Dance of the Sexes: Men, Women, and the Words Between Them -- The Eye of the Beholder: Conceptions of Beauty -- Serious Business: Words About Work and Money -- States of Mind: Words, Thoughts, and Beyond -- Life Is But a Dream: The Jargon of Mental Technologists -- Spiritual Pathwords: The Map, the Territory, and the Mystery -- The Body Politic: Words and Social Action -- Toolwords: Technology and Worldviews -- Strange Memes: Language Viruses -- Afterword: Do You Know an Untranslatable Word?
Responsibility: Howard Rheingold.

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"... more than forty familiar and obscure languages to discover genuinely useful (rather than simply odd) words that can open up new ways of understanding and experiencing life"--P. [4] of cover.

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