City Club Presents Geoffrey Nunberg

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Channel: University of California Television (UCTV) · 2008 · Education

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Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg offers a humorous look at the use of modern language, from President Bush's pronunciation of "nucular" to teenagers speaking in acronyms, as he reads from a collectiion of essays that he wrote for the New York Times and National Public Radio.  Series: "City Club Presents" [9/2004] [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 8892]

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