Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Geoffrey Nunberg

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Last updated on December 2, 2024.

Geoffrey Nunberg was an American lexical semantician and author. In 2001 he received the Linguistics, Language, and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistic Society of America for his contributions to National Public Radio's Fresh Air, and he has published a number of popular press books including Going Nucular: Language, Politics and Culture in Controversial Times (2004). Nunberg is primarily known for his public-facing work interpreting linguistic science for lay audiences, though his contributions to linguistic theory are also well regarded.

American - Professor | Born: 1945

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The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture surveys the forms and uses of epigraphic writing from classical antiquity to the twentieth century.

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When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists.

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When the world changes, correlation goes away… Causals are what endure.

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Few people become assholes reluctantly.

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There are only two reasons for buying a book, after all. Either we intend to read it, in which case most of us find a printed version preferable, or we don't intend to read it, in which case a printed version is absolutely essential.

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Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Geoffrey Nunberg

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