Scarcely English (ePub)

Name: Scarcely English
Brand: Cornerstone
SKU: 152088498
Price: 14.00 CHF
Availability: OnlineOnly

An A to Z of Assaults On Our Language (Sprache: Englisch)

Autor: Simon Heffer

Schreiben Sie einen Kommentar zu "Scarcely English".

Merken

Mehr zum Inhalt Family Sharing Autorenporträt Video

Erscheint am 19.09.2024

Bestellnummer: 152088498

eBook (ePub) Fr. 14.00

inkl. MwSt.

Download vorbestellen

Kreditkarte, Paypal, Rechnung
Kostenloser tolino webreader

Produktdetails

Produktbeschreibung
Autorenporträt
eBook Hilfe
Biblio. Angaben / Produktdetails
Download-DRM Infos
Family Sharing

Produktinformationen zu „Scarcely English (ePub)“

The English language has evolved throughout its history, and usually for good reasons. However, in recent years, egged on by social media and the ubiquity and velocity of the internet, it has been subject to some grave assaults. There appear no longer to be any rules, in an era when, thanks to the web (another word to have changed its meaning) everyone can be a published author, completely unedited and unregulated. This often has dire consequences for the English tongue.

Simon Heffer's A to Z runs though a whole litany of common confusions ('flaunt' and 'flout', 'imply' and 'infer', 'uninterested' and 'disinterested'), unidiomatic English ('fed up of', 'focus around', the use of 'impacted' in such construction as 'the loss impacted him badly'), and lazy expressions (these days every extended activity is an '-athon', every scandal is a 'Something-gate'). It bemoans some truly awful neologisms, 'infotainment' and 'funwashing' among them. And it registers the horror of those of us who do not believe that you can answer the question 'How are you?' with the words 'I'm good'.

Trenchant and sprinkled with dry wit, Scarcely English is both a chamber of horrors of bad and lazy English and a plea for accuracy, clear thinking and elegance.

Autoren-Porträt von Simon Heffer

Simon Heffer was born in 1960. He read English at Cambridge and took a PhD in modern history at that university. His previous books include: Moral Desperado: A Life of Thomas Carlyle, Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell, Power and Place: The Political Consequences of King Edward VII, Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinvention of England, Vaughan Williams, Strictly English, A Short History of Power, Simply English and High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain. In a thirty-year career in Fleet Street, he has held senior editorial positions on The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator, and is now a columnist for The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.

eBook Hilfe

Informationen und Hilfe zu eBooks hier klicken!

Bibliographische Angaben

Autor: Simon Heffer
2024, Englisch
Verlag: Cornerstone
ISBN-10: 1804940143
ISBN-13: 9781804940143
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.09.2024

Abhängig von Bildschirmgrösse und eingestellter Schriftgrösse kann die Seitenzahl auf Ihrem Lesegerät variieren.

eBook Informationen

Dateiformat: ePub
Mit Kopierschutz
Vorlesefunktion

Sprache:

Englisch

Kopierschutz

Dieses eBook können Sie uneingeschränkt auf allen Geräten der tolino Familie lesen. Zum Lesen auf sonstigen eReadern und am PC benötigen Sie eine Adobe ID.

Family Sharing

eBooks und Audiobooks (Hörbuch-Downloads) mit der Familie teilen und gemeinsam geniessen. Mehr Infos hier.

Kommentar zu "Scarcely English"

Schreiben Sie einen Kommentar zu "Scarcely English".

0 Gebrauchte Artikel zu „Scarcely English“

Zustand	Preis	Porto	Zahlung	Verkäufer	Rating