May 1998
Beginner
1128 pages
30h 26m
English
IN THIS CHAPTER
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
—Orson Welles
The English language is a veritable factory of new words and phrases. Inventive wordsmiths in all fields are constantly forging new additions to the lexicon by blending words, attaching morphemic tidbits to existing words, and creating neologisms out of thin air. Some of these new words strike a ...