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One of my favorite Cambridge books I've read in the past couple years is Ruth Wajnryb's You Know What I Mean?. Wajnryb is an Australian language expert who parses the slipperiness of meaning in general.
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Ruth Wajnryb writes on something that concerns us all in the publishing world: book titles. We don’t agonize and argue over them for nothing: her essay from You Know What I Mean? shows the length to which titles influence her and the neighborhood around her favorite local bookstore. A linguist as well as a columnist, […]
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Ruth Wajnryb is WORDS columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald. Her new book, You Know What I Mean? plumbs the depths of language, and the shifty, slippery meanings of our words. Here, a meditation on her own first name. Although you probably have less reason than some to look up ‘ruth’ in the dictionary, doing […]
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