La vida secreta de los diccionarios
“Language seems to us a strength that must be defended, but a better analogy would be a child. We give him love and care, and once he develops his motor skills he begins to go exactly where we do not want: right to the bloody plugs. With ingenuity and irreverence, lexicographer Kory Stamper opens the doors of the obsessive world of dictionary writing, from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the complicated question of constantly changing the use of words. Filled with fun facts - for example, the first documented use of "OMG" was in a letter to Winston Churchill - and with Stamper's own stories from the language front - including how she became America's leading apologist for the term " Irregardless ', despite loathing this expression,' Word for Word is an enormously entertaining look at the wonderful complexities and eccentricities of a language.
