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Lost for Words : The Mangling and Manipulating of the English Language

John Humphrys

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Description:From tired old clichés to meaningless jargon, dangling participles to sentences without verbs, the English language is under attack from many quarters.Politicians dupe us with deliberately evasive language. Professors fear the consequences of correcting their students' mangled sentences. Bureaucrats bore us into submission.Language is about communicating. All this does the opposite. And it is all so ugly. English is a beautiful language that should give us pleasure, not pain.John Humphrys has fun at the expense of language abusers, and also raises serious issues about people in power who use words to manipulate us. Language should be simple, clear and honest. Where it is not, we need to ask why - and do something about it.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lost for Words : The Mangling and Manipulating of the English Language. To get started finding Lost for Words : The Mangling and Manipulating of the English Language, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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ISBN: 0340836598

Description: From tired old clichés to meaningless jargon, dangling participles to sentences without verbs, the English language is under attack from many quarters.Politicians dupe us with deliberately evasive language. Professors fear the consequences of correcting their students' mangled sentences. Bureaucrats bore us into submission.Language is about communicating. All this does the opposite. And it is all so ugly. English is a beautiful language that should give us pleasure, not pain.John Humphrys has fun at the expense of language abusers, and also raises serious issues about people in power who use words to manipulate us. Language should be simple, clear and honest. Where it is not, we need to ask why - and do something about it.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lost for Words : The Mangling and Manipulating of the English Language. To get started finding Lost for Words : The Mangling and Manipulating of the English Language, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Lost for Words : The Mangling and Manipulating of the English Language

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