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The Revenge of Anguished English: More Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language
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Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; First Edition edition November 13, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 031233494X
ISBN-13: 978-0312334949
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 0.6 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
From Publishers Weekly
Fourth in the Anguished English series (The Bride of Anguished English, More Anguished English, etc.), Lederer's newest collection of grammatical goofs will elicit laughs from start to finish. Cataloguing the hilarious ways in which people mangle the English language, Lederer offers hundreds of new linguistic blunders, from infamous "Bushisms" to poorly worded newspaper headlines. Children, in early experiments with language and logic, utter some of the funniest foul-ups. For example, as a mother desperately pounds catsup out of a bottle, her four-year-old answers the phone and says, "Mommy can't come to the phone to talk to you right now. She's hitting the bottle." In another instance, a mother asks her child what she learned on the first day of school, and the child's reply is: "Not enough. They say I have to go back tomorrow." In addition to these "kiddisms," the book touches upon more adult humor, as in a headline that reads: "Soviet Virgin Lands Short of Goal Again." Complete with ridiculously obvious product warnings, church bulletin bloopers and celebrities caught saying the wrong things, this book celebrates the English language by allowing readers to laugh at others' amusing mistakes. 30 b&w line drawings.
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From Booklist
Prolific author Lederer has written many language books; this title is part of his ongoing humorous series that began with Anguished English (1987). The book is divided into five sections (each containing from three to five short chapters) covering the funny mistakes made by children, gaffes committed by the famous, botched newspaper headlines and stories, translation problems, and grammatical errors. Each chapter ends with Hall of Fame examples of the topic under discussion. Malapropisms, misplaced modifiers, and unintentionally funny typos are all here, and in between chuckles, readers are sure to learn plenty about proper sentence structure. However, Lederer leads off with what may be the funniest section in the book when he recounts kids' mistakes, especially the student bloopers ("The four gospels were written by John, Paul, George, and that other guy"). The book is so chock-full of humorous examples that readers are bound to laugh at least once per page. Everyone makes mistakes--why are they so much funnier when they are someone else's? Lederer seems to know the answer to that one. Joanne Wilkinson
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Reader Reviews
This review is from: The Revenge of Anguished English: More Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language (Hardcover)
This book is a collection of gaffes, puns (mostly unintentional), unfortunate typos, syntactical snafus, kids' use of language, and translational traps. Some of the examples are riotously funny; others are just so-so. Sometimes the number of examples overwhelms the brain's ability to appreciate them. The introductions by Lederer before each chapter are cleverly written, but sometimes too much so. (Example: "Here's a sampling of English terrors and tinglish errors, the blood and thunder and thud and blunder...") Ugh. Finally, if you're going to make fun of English gaffes you find elsewhere, you'd better have a cadre of editors to make sure none of your prose contains errors. This sentence, written by Lederer, poked me right in the eye: "It is sometimes said that if something is perfectly true, then it's exact opposite must also be perfectly true." Apostrophe abuse! Still, it was a very funny book, especially for a word nerd such as myself. I definitely intend to look for Lederer's earlier works. I love this stuff!
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