Article: Talk the Talk: The Slang of 65 American Subcultures.(Brief article)(Book review)

Article: Talk the talk; the slang of 65 American ...
Reference & Research Book News;  February 1, 2007 ;     451 words ...9781582974231 Talk the talk; the slang of 65 American subcultures. Reid, Luc. Writer's Digest Books 2006 422 ... Luc Reid takes readers on a linguistic tour of 65 American subcultures, providing definitions and usage information on ...

Article: Word Nerds
Seven Days;  December 13, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Word Nerds Talk the Talk: The Slang of 65 American Subcultures by Luc Reid. Writer's Digest Books ... come from a handy lexicon called Talk the Talk: The Slang of 65 American Subcultures, published in September, by Burlington ...

Article: Travel Louis theroux needs his freaks as much as they need him, ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  November 6, 2005 ;     700+ words ...The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures by LOUIS theroux macmillan pounds 17.99, 326 pp ... His first book, The Call of the Wild: Travels in American Subcultures, is therefore billed as "a Reunion Tour''. In ...

Transcript: Idiom Savant
NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday;  October 12, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... Savant -- The Colorful Lingo of American Subcultures from Animators to Zine Readers ... SLUNG, THE COLORFUL LINGO OF AMERICAN SUBCULTURES, FROM ANIMATORS TO ZINE READERS ... went to see if people who host talk shows are a subculture. And ...

Article: A fun, if familiar, look at America's subcultures
The Boston Globe;  December 7, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... GROUNDS A Pilgrim's Progress Through Eight American Subcultures By W. Hampton Sides Morrow, 272 pp., illustrated ... Grounds: A Pilgrim's Progress Through Eight American Subcultures." Tom Wolfe surveyed a similar landscape ...

Article: Director tours Mississippi blues. (Music DVD).
Video Store;  May 4, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... way to take his love of music, of filmmaking and of American subcultures and turn it into not only a preservation but a product ... Mugge said. "What I try to do is go into these American subcultures and focus on these different types of music. I've ...

Article: The Orange County Register, Calif., Off the Hook Column.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  April 8, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... the time or desire to deal with all that. "There is a collision here between the buying expectations of two American subcultures: consumers and high-tech people," Brown said. "For enthusiasts, screwing around with this stuff is entertainment ...