A witty exploration of government newspeak, exaggerated advertising claims, misleading propaganda and other misnomers and how to combat them.

As S. Morris Engel alerts us in this eye-opening book, we risk falling into potentially harmful language traps every moment. Not just the occasional malapropism

Rev. ed. of: Computer organization and design / John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson. 1998.

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