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Chargement... Armed Gunmen, True Facts, and Other Ridiculous Nonsense: A Compiled Compendium of Repetitive Redundancies (édition 2012)par Richard A. Kallan (Auteur), George Cruikshank (Illustrateur)
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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. Author Richard Kallan could have worked for the Department of Redundancy Department, but instead obtained a Ph.D. in communication studies. Still, his obvious study of language is evident in this delightful book of repetitive sayings. Many are funny, but a few are not true redundancies. You are likely to find yourself guilty of uttering one or more of these offerings, but don’t let that stop you from enjoying the jabs. Be sure to spend some time viewing the illustrations; they are wonderfully entertaining. And don’t skip the concluding coda at the end! (Yes, I said that on purpose.) ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Tautology— A word or group of words that unintentionally repeats its meaning. When was the last time you entered your PIN NUMBER into the ATM MACHINE? Or longed for the PERFECT UTOPIA? Using unnecessary words can make written and spoken language a DISORGANIZED MESS, but it’s not just STUPID IDIOTS who do so. We’re all guilty, and this irreverent collection of tautologies catalogs our most common redundancies and wittily defines them. A FUNNY COMIC, for instance, is “one who’s employed”; a BLACK CROW is “the outcast in those large albino flocks”; and a SURVIVING WIDOW is “the last one standing in an all-widow game of Russian roulette.” Beautifully designed and illustrated with comically apt reproductions by the nineteenth-century artist George Cruikshank,Armed Gunmen, True Facts, and Other Ridiculous Nonsenseis a welcome antidote to a growing tendency in contemporary usage—and the perfect book for grammarphobes, word geeks, and language lovers alike. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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