Eats, Shites & Leaves

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I know that you believe that you
understood what you think I said,
but I am not sure you realize that what
you heard is not what I meant.
Robert McCloskey,
US State department spokesman
The English language is a complex and
ever-changing beast, rife with stylistic
eccentricities and open to misin-
terpretation on many levels. Little wonder,
then, that for every expert English speaker,
there are thousands who find themselves
falling down grammatical trapdoors,
tripping up over puzzling punctuation and
spelling words with diabolical inaccuracy.
Eats, Shites & Leaves is a celebration of all
things shite about the misuse of English,
highlighting the prevalence of absent
apostrophes, ghastly grammar, suspect
sentences and rambling repetitiveness,
commentators' claptrap, tortuous taut-
ologies, insane instructions and quirky
quotations in society today. This essential
collection touches upon ambiguous
adverts - 'Why not have the kids shot for
Easter, or have a... Tovább

Fülszöveg

I know that you believe that you
understood what you think I said,
but I am not sure you realize that what
you heard is not what I meant.
Robert McCloskey,
US State department spokesman
The English language is a complex and
ever-changing beast, rife with stylistic
eccentricities and open to misin-
terpretation on many levels. Little wonder,
then, that for every expert English speaker,
there are thousands who find themselves
falling down grammatical trapdoors,
tripping up over puzzling punctuation and
spelling words with diabolical inaccuracy.
Eats, Shites & Leaves is a celebration of all
things shite about the misuse of English,
highlighting the prevalence of absent
apostrophes, ghastly grammar, suspect
sentences and rambling repetitiveness,
commentators' claptrap, tortuous taut-
ologies, insane instructions and quirky
quotations in society today. This essential
collection touches upon ambiguous
adverts - 'Why not have the kids shot for
Easter, or have a family portrait taken?';
dangling modifiers - 'She slipped on the
ice and apparently her legs went in
separate directions in early December';
senseless statements - 'With half the race
gone, there is half the race still to go'; and
cloying cliches - 'If you find yourself in
hot water, put your best foot forward'; and
also includes lists of malapropisms,
euphemisms, misspellings, rhyming slang
and puns.
Featuring a plethora of examples that show
how to get the worst out of the world's
most commonly spoken language, Eats,
Shites & Leaves is a wittily informative
insight into how the English language can
be used and abused in the twenty-first
century. Vissza