Alena Graedon
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The Word Exchange: A Nøvel 1 kappale
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- Syntymäaika
- 19??
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Durham, North Carolina, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Koulutus
- Brown University
Columbia University (MFA)
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- 2
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- 671
- Suosituimmuussija
- #37,614
- Arvio (tähdet)
- 3.3
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- 77
- ISBN:t
- 22
- Kielet
- 4
It’s a little bit into the future and almost everyone uses a “Meme”, a recent handheld device that does pretty much everything, including coming up with language/words for people to use. Print dictionaries are almost at an end. Doug is working on the last one that will be printed, but when he disappears, he leaves a clue for his daughter, Anana. While she searches for him, Memes start controlling more and more of people’s language as they also need to pay for words (via “The Word Exchange”. Not only that, there is now a “word flu” making its rounds where people are not only not feeling well, they are garbelling their words.
I feel like I might have liked it better and paid better attention if I hadn’t listened to the audio. I got the gist of the bulk of what was happening, and was a little bit interested, but not completely. Hmm, in some ways (based on other reviews), maybe the audio was better? I didn’t notice too many super-big words that made it hard to understand, and I mostly didn’t have an issue understanding what people were trying to say when garbled words were coming out – that was likely easier due to hearing the “word” rather than reading it. Overall, I’m rating it just under “ok”.… (lisätietoja)