The Miracle of LanguageSimon and Schuster, 11 May 2010 - 256 sayfa Master verbalist Richard Lederer, America's "Wizard of Idiom" (Denver Post), presents a love letter to the most glorious of human achievements... Welcome to Richard Lederer's beguiling celebration of language -- of our ability to utter, write, and receive words. No purists need stop here. Mr. Lederer is no linguistic sheriff organizing posses to hunt down and string up language offenders. Instead, join him "In Praise of English," and discover why the tongue described in Shakespeare's day as "of small reatch" has become the most widely spoken language in history:
He also points out the pitfalls and pratfalls of English. If a man mans a station, what does a woman do? In the "The Department of Redundancy Department," "Is English Prejudiced?" and other essays, Richard Lederer urges us not to abandon that which makes us human: the capacity to distinguish, discriminate, compare, and evaluate. |
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How Do We Know What We Know? | 10 |
In Praise of English | 17 |
The Case for Short Words | 30 |
Brave New Words | 40 |
Is English Prejudiced? | 49 |
The Department of Redundancy Department | 69 |
One Word Can Change the World | 75 |
The Word Magic of Lewis Carroll | 106 |
The Year of Mark Twain | 113 |
The Hilltop of the Heart | 123 |
George Orwell Is Watching You | 133 |
IV | 143 |
A Celebration of Libraries | 153 |
What Is Poetry? | 162 |
A Letter Is Forever | 176 |
Literary Wordmakers | 81 |
A Man of FireNew Words | 87 |
No Harmless Drudges They | 95 |
Words About Words | 187 |
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