The Joy Of Text
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The Joy of Text
Finally, the software gods have rescued us from our stalled, confused love lives by giving us so many new ways to meet, connect, and share what we want, feel, and mean. Or have they? Dating has never been simple, but in an age of IMs, text messages, e-mails, and BlackBerry notes, it can be an absolute minefield. How can you accurately judge a guy's potential when all you have to go on is his punctuation? What's the best way to maintain your witty, sassy rapport once you've decided to leave the safety of techno-anonymity and take your relationship off-line? When do you remedy a techno-gaffe or know if it's too early to hit send? And how can you gauge his feelings without seeing his body language or even hearing his voice? Enough is enough. In The Joy of Text, real-life cyber-Cyrano Kristina Grish establishes hard and fast rules to help modern women navigate their love lives via technology; offers invaluable tips on how to analyze text, timing, and tone; and provides advice on etiquette in an age when the handwritten thank-you note is all but obsolete.
Alphabetter Juice, or The Joy of Text
Fresh-squeezed Lexicology, with Twists No man of letters savors the ABC's, or serves them up, like language-loving humorist Roy Blount Jr. His glossary, from adhominy to zizz, is hearty, full bodied, and out to please discriminating palates coarse and fine. In 2008, he celebrated the gists, tangs, and energies of letters and their combinations in Alphabet Juice, to wide acclaim. Now, Alphabetter Juice. Which is better. This book is for anyone—novice wordsmith, sensuous reader, or career grammarian—who loves to get physical with words. What is the universal sign of disgust, ew, doing in beautiful and cutie? Why is toadless, but not frogless, in the Oxford English Dictionary? How can the U. S. Supreme Court find relevance in gollywoddles? Might there be scientific evidence for the sonicky value of hunch? And why would someone not bother to spell correctly the very word he is trying to define on Urbandictionary.com? Digging into how locutions evolve, and work, or fail, Blount draws upon everything from The Tempest to The Wire. He takes us to Iceland, for salmon-watching with a "girl gillie," and to Georgian England, where a distinguished etymologist bites off more of a "giantess" than he can chew. Jimmy Stewart appears, in connection with kludge and the bombing of Switzerland. Litigation over supercalifragilisticexpialidocious leads to a vintage werewolf movie; news of possum-tossing, to metanarrative. As Michael Dirda wrote in The Washington Post Book World, "The immensely likeable Blount clearly possesses what was called in the Italian Renaissance ‘sprezzatura,' that rare and enviable ability to do even the most difficult things without breaking a sweat." Alphabetter Juice is brimming with sprezzatura. Have a taste.
The Joy of X
Author: Niall Mansfield
language: en
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Release Date: 1993
ARE YOU A system manager who needs to understand X architecture toolsand techniques? An IT director or manager deciding whether your organizationshould go the X route? A programmer who wants an overview of X before exploring thesystem in detail? Involved in technical support and looking for an understandingof how X works? Confused by the GUI wars between OPEN LOOK and Motif? Involved in sales or marketing and need to understand yourcustomers? THEN THE JOY OF X IS FOR YOU It provides an introduction to the X Window System, the de factostandard windowing system for workstations, minicomputers, mainframes and supercomputers running UNIX, MS and otheroperating systems. THE JOY OF X pulls together material from awide range of sources to provide a complete picture of the systemso that you can understand the important features and issues.FEATURES INCLUDE: Topic coverage divided into three sections: X in a nutshell - a quick managers' overviewHow X works, in detail, and how the user sees itUsing the system, system administration, performance andprogramming Written in a clear, uncomplicated style, and containing over200 illustrations for maximum accessibility A flexibile, modular structure that makes it easy to skip tothe sections that interest you and avoid technical details thatdon't "I find this book extraordinary. It's one of the first books onX which addresses questions of information systems policy withrespect to the X Window System...It will advance the case of Xand open systems by making the interesting issues moreaccessible..."Oliver Jones "THE X WINDOW SYSTEM: A USER'S GUIDEshines like a beacon. Itcaters for the intelligent non-programmer, the person who can domore than just click buttons and menus but doesn't want to diveinto code..."Jon Vogler, SUN UK User 0201565129B04062001