Description
About the Author
Rob Chirico is a writer, an artist, and the author of Field Guide to Cocktails. He lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Keith Allan is an Australian linguist and emeritus professor at Monash University.
Reviews
"Slang, which usually steers clear of praise, manages 354 synonyms for 'excellent.' Mr. Chirico's book deserves the lot. It is witty, erudite, admirably widely researched, and skewers those who forget that in the phrase 'bad language,' the 'bad' is merely an opinion and it is the 'language,' as valid and fascinating as any other variety of English, that matters. Thus the essence of a study that will appeal both to the general reader and to the expert who will acknowledge it as among the best overviews of its topic: swearing. H. L. Mencken would have enjoyed Damn! So too would Lenny Bruce." Jonathon Green, author, Green's Dictionary of Slang
"An informative trip on the topics of profanity, cursing, swearing, obscenity, or whatever else we want to call offensive speech, with connections to media, popular culture, the courts, sports, and social science. Damn! is full of relevant, up-to-date, and comprehensive examples of this vexing aspect of human communication. Chirico's entertaining and often humorous examples bring home the complicated, nuanced, and often misunderstood world of cursing in America past and present." Timothy Jay, PhD, author, Cursing in America and Why We Curse
Book Information
ISBN 9781939578204
Author Rob Chirico
Format Paperback
Page Count 183
Imprint Pitchstone Publishing
Publisher Pitchstone Publishing
Weight(grams) 226g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 10mm