Word: pops
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...America's Most Hated. Spears has requested custody of the couple's two sons, one-year old Sean Preston and two-month old Jayden James, with visitation rights for Federline. The couple signed a pre-nuptial agreement (thanks, Mama Spears!), and so divvying up the singer's bubble-gum-pop millions should not be an issue...
...rest of the credit goes to the incredible research behind the book, which preempts potential criticisms concerning timeliness and relevance of the work. Savan writes, “it’s not a word’s freshness date that makes it pop but its degree of persuasive power,” and “a good 93.8 percent of the time we don’t talk pop—but looking at why we do when we do and how it affects communication is my focus.” A third objection—that people...
...only does she look at the fashionable speech of 19th century England, when “flare up” was all the rage, she goes back to the king of pop, William Shakespeare, and even to ancient Pompeii, where volcanic ash preserved graffiti on the walls of the public baths...
...pop vernacular may not be unique to us, she says, but ours is unprecedented because of the media’s power to put words into mouths around the world. Savan finds pop in the flappers of the 1920s, “Seinfeld,” and the Super Bowl, and has veritable glossaries of pop for the Average Joe and what she calls “the community of commitment-centered words.” Two familiar Harvard personalities, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker and Cogan University Professor of the Humanities Stephen J. Greenblatt, even get mentions...
Regardless, the book accomplishes what it sets out to do: Savan aims squarely to be pop lit and hits a bullseye...