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Chargement... The History of Britain Revealed: The Shocking Truth About the English Language (2002)par M.J. Harper
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. An utterly hilarious and enlightening attack on paradigms, doctrines and science. Yes it's informative but it's massively entertaining. A rampant epistemological bull in a shop of very fragile china - this is a great way to learn how to critically evaluate and challenge all you've been told to believe. Discover the secret your teachers and lecturers hid from you: English is fascinating and fun! MJ Harper, in his The History of Britain Revealed: The Shocking Truth About the English Language, shoots down sacred cows as — with wit and originality — he explodes traditional British myths, demonstrates how many of the entries in the Oxford English Dictionary are incorrect, and takes damaging sideswipes at Latin, Anglo-Saxon and Middle English. Punchy and provocative, Harper might not be for everyone, so be warned. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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This is a truly original blistering attack on the standard history of Britain and the origins of the English language. Think you know where the English language came from? Think again. In gloriously corrosive prose, M.J. Harper destroys the cherished national myths of the English, the Scots, the Welsh, the Irish and - to demonstrate his lack of national bias - the French. He shows that: most of the entries in the Oxford English Dictionary are wrong; the whole of British place-name theory is misconceived; Latin is not what it seems; the Anglo-Saxons played no major part in our history or language; and middle English is a wholly imaginary language created by well-meaning but deluded academics. Iconoclastic, unsentimental and truly original, "The History of Britain Revealed" will change the way you think about the history of the United Kingdom, the origin of the English language - and much else besides. It is an essential but rarely comforting read for anyone who believes that history matters. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I hope it's an elaborate in-joke about how easy it is to write this kind of pseudo-academic "revisionist" drivel. If not, the straw man arguments Harper constructs are easily and comprehensively demolished by people who understand the linguistics or (pre)history at question. ( )