Junk English
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- Synopsis
- "Language atrocities infest present-day English. To survey the damage, Ken Smith has subjected himself to an unprecedented barrage of mindless jargon, euphemisms, and weasel words, cataloging for inspection and ridicule monstrosities such as impactful and smartize, empty rhetoric such as quality of life and revolutionary in nature, and broad swaths of modern-day grammatical humbug such as Artificial Vocabulary, Parasitic Intensifiers, Useless Cabooses, and Hyphen-Monsters." "With hundreds of examples pulled from everyday life, Junk English shows how our language is becoming so pliable and flabby that the more we read and hear, the less we know."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
- Copyright:
- 2002
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 142 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780922233236
- Publisher:
- Blast Books
- Date of Addition:
- 01/26/09
- Copyrighted By:
- Ken Smith
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Language Arts
- Submitted By:
- Liz Halperin
- Proofread By:
- Liz Halperin
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.