Short Cuts: A Guide to Oaths, Ring Tones, Ransom Notes, Famous Last Words, and Other Forms of Minimalist Communication

The book aims to discuss the rich language of communication albeit with the emphasis on the ways in which we shorten words to help get our points across. The human race has been finding ways to minimally communicate with each other since the Babylonians used pictures to communicate write up to the present day where text speech – LOL, aGr8 has become the norm. This book offers a delightful insight into human language and linguistics; it provides the history behind a concept so for example, the phone, gravestones and the use of mail. The book provides a number of trivia...