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- État
- Title
- Ambrose Bierce's Write It Right: The Celebrated Cynic's Language
- ISBN
- 9780802717689
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Write It Right : The Celebrated Cynic's Language Peeves Deciphered, Appraised, and Annotated for 21st-Century Readers
- Item Height
- 0.9in.
- Item Length
- 7.9in.
- Publisher
- Walker & Company
- Item Width
- 6.1in.
- Item Weight
- 10.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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One of America's foremost language experts presents an annotated edition of A mbrose Bierce's classic catalog of correct speech. Ambrose Bierce is best known for The Devil's Dictionary , but the prolific journalist, satirist, and fabulist was also a usage maven. In 1909, he published several hundred of his pet peeves in Write It Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. Bierce's list includes some distinctions still familiar today--the which-that rule, less vs. fewer , lie and lay -- but it also abounds in now-forgotten shibboleths: Ovation , the critics of his time agreed, meant a Roman triumph, not a round of applause. Reliable was an ill-formed coinage, not for the discriminating. Donate was pretentious, jeopardize should be jeopard , demean meant "comport oneself," not "belittle." And Bierce made up a few peeves of his own for good measure. We should say "a coating of paint," he instructed, not "a coat." To mark the 100th anniversary of Write It Right , language columnist Jan Freeman has investigated where Bierce's rules and taboos originated, how they've fared in the century since the blacklist, and what lies ahead. Will our language quibbles seem as odd in 2109 as Bierce's do today? From the evidence offered here, it looks like a very good bet.
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Publisher
Walker & Company
ISBN-10
0802717683
ISBN-13
9780802717689
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72676504
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Write It Right : The Celebrated Cynic's Language Peeves Deciphered, Appraised, and Annotated for 21st-Century Readers
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.9in.
Item Height
0.9in.
Item Width
6.1in.
Weight
10.3 Oz
Item Weight
10.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pe1460.B5 2009
Publication Date
2009-11-10
Reviews
When the wisest language maven of this century takes on the wittiest (and most curmudgeonly) of the last one, the result is fantastically entertaining and insightful. You can dip into this book for pleasure, but you will also learn much about language, style, and the dubious authority of self-anointed experts., Ambrose Bierce's classic little book of Victorian-era grammar-grouchery lays down the law in a series of opinions that range from the conventional to the goofy. Jan Freeman's light-hearted look at how his edicts have fared a century later will be an eye-opener to those who confuse their specific language peeves with eternal truths., [Bierce] defended what he took to be elite usages; he detested vernacular variants, and he had a special animus against expressions with a whiff of business and commerce ("trade") about them. Some of his peeves -- expressed in High Curmudgeon--were conventional ones at the time, but many were eccentric to the point of idiosyncrasy, and on these the Bierce-Freeman exchanges are especially delightful., Bierce's collection of because-I-said-so strictures is an education in the persnickety side of English usage, but Jan Freeman's commentary on Bierce is truly enlightening, not just about the language but about how people judge the language., A hundred years ago, knuckle-rapper Ambrose Bierce cranked out a compendium of usage rules: Write It Right . Now Jan Freeman, language columnist for the Boston Globe, has published an annotated version of Bierce's bugbears: Ambrose Bierce's Write It Right . You'll savor Freeman's bright and breezy commentary on Bierce's often daffy dicta., What fun to see an exceptionally commonsensical modern language critic give a famously crusty old one his due! They should sell tickets., "When the wisest language maven of this century takes on the wittiest (and most curmudgeonly) of the last one, the result is fantastically entertaining and insightful. You can dip into this book for pleasure, but you will also learn much about language, style, and the dubious authority of self-anointed experts." - Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of The Language Instinct and The Stuff of Thought . "What fun to see an exceptionally commonsensical modern language critic give a famously crusty old one his due! They should sell tickets." - Barbara Wallraff, author of "Word Court" "There is much to admire in this little book: the thoroughness of Ms. Freeman's research, her level-headed analysis of Bierce's strictures, and - perhaps the enduring lesson - her insight into the foibles of usagists. If you as an editor or manager have the authority to set yourself up as a tinpot despot on usage (as I was for many years), put this book before you and learn humility." - John McIntyre, "You Don't Say" "Freeman, with her extensive explanations, comes off as the more practical and knowledgeable, but much of Bierce's greatness lies in his biting, snooty formulations. 'Ancestrally vulgar,' he'll sniff about one word, rolling his eyes … or 'irreclaimably degenerate.' What fun!" - Deirdre Foley-Mendelssohn, "Book Bench," The New Yorker "[Bierce] defended what he took to be elite usages; he detested vernacular variants, and he had a special animus against expressions with a whiff of business and commerce ("trade") about them. Some of his peeves -- expressed in High Curmudgeon -- were conventional ones at the time, but many were eccentric to the point of idiosyncrasy, and on these the Bierce-Freeman exchanges are especially delightful. - Linguist Arnold Zwicky, "Language Log" "A hundred years ago, knuckle-rapper Ambrose Bierce cranked out a compendium of usage rules: Write It Right . Now Jan Freeman, language columnist for the Boston Globe, has published an annotated version of Bierce's bugbears: Ambrose Bierce's Write It Right . You'll savor Freeman's bright and breezy commentary on Bierce's often daffy dicta." - Rob Kyffe, "The Word Guy" "Ambrose Bierce's classic little book of Victorian-era grammar-grouchery lays down the law in a series of opinions that range from the conventional to the goofy. Jan Freeman's light-hearted look at how his edicts have fared a century later will be an eye-opener to those who confuse their specific language peeves with eternal truths."- Geoffrey K. Pullum, Head of Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh, coauthor of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language , and cofounder of Language Log "Bierce's collection of because-I-said-so strictures is an education in the persnickety side of English usage, but Jan Freeman's commentary on Bierce is truly enlightening, not just about the language but about how people judge the language."- Erin McKean, lexicographer, CEO of Wordnik, "When the wisest language maven of this century takes on the wittiest (and most curmudgeonly) of the last one, the result is fantastically entertaining and insightful. You can dip into this book for pleasure, but you will also learn much about language, style, and the dubious authority of self-anointed experts." Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of The Language Instinctand The Stuff of Thought. "What fun to see an exceptionally commonsensical modern language critic give a famously crusty old one his due! They should sell tickets." Barbara Wallraff, author of "Word Court" "There is much to admire in this little book: the thoroughness of Ms. Freeman's research, her level-headed analysis of Bierce's strictures, and perhaps the enduring lesson her insight into the foibles of usagists. If you as an editor or manager have the authority to set yourself up as a tinpot despot on usage (as I was for many years), put this book before you and learn humility." John McIntyre, "You Don't Say" "Freeman, with her extensive explanations, comes off as the more practical and knowledgeable, but much of Bierce's greatness lies in his biting, snooty formulations. 'Ancestrally vulgar,' he'll sniff about one word, rolling his eyes ... or 'irreclaimably degenerate.' What fun!" Deirdre Foley-Mendelssohn, "Book Bench," The New Yorker "[Bierce] defended what he took to be elite usages; he detested vernacular variants, and he had a special animus against expressions with a whiff of business and commerce ("trade") about them. Some of his peeves -- expressed in High Curmudgeon -- were conventional ones at the time, but many were eccentric to the point of idiosyncrasy, and on these the Bierce-Freeman exchanges are especially delightful. Linguist Arnold Zwicky, "Language Log" "A hundred years ago, knuckle-rapper Ambrose Bierce cranked out a compendium of usage rules: Write It Right. Now Jan Freeman, language columnist for the Boston Globe, has published an annotated version of Bierce's bugbears: Ambrose Bierce's Write It Right. You'll savor Freeman's bright and breezy commentary on Bierce's often daffy dicta." Rob Kyffe, "The Word Guy" "Ambrose Bierce's classic little book of Victorian-era grammar-grouchery lays down the law in a series of opinions that range from the conventional to the goofy. Jan Freeman's light-hearted look at how his edicts have fared a century later will be an eye-opener to those who confuse their specific language peeves with eternal truths." Geoffrey K. Pullum, Head of Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh, coauthor of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, and cofounder of Language Log "Bierce's collection of because-I-said-so strictures is an education in the persnickety side of English usage, but Jan Freeman's commentary on Bierce is truly enlightening, not just about the language but about how people judge the language." Erin McKean, lexicographer, CEO of Wordnik, "When the wisest language maven of this century takes on the wittiest (and most curmudgeonly) of the last one, the result is fantastically entertaining and insightful. You can dip into this book for pleasure, but you will also learn much about language, style, and the dubious authority of self-anointed experts." -Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author ofThe Language InstinctandThe Stuff of Thought. "What fun to see an exceptionally commonsensical modern language critic give a famously crusty old one his due! They should sell tickets." -Barbara Wallraff, author of "Word Court" "There is much to admire in this little book: the thoroughness of Ms. Freeman's research, her level-headed analysis of Bierce's strictures, and - perhaps the enduring lesson - her insight into the foibles of usagists. If you as an editor or manager have the authority to set yourself up as a tinpot despot on usage (as I was for many years), put this book before you and learn humility." -John McIntyre, "You Don't Say" "Freeman, with her extensive explanations, comes off as the more practical and knowledgeable, but much of Bierce's greatness lies in his biting, snooty formulations. 'Ancestrally vulgar,' he'll sniff about one word, rolling his eyes … or 'irreclaimably degenerate.' What fun!" -Deirdre Foley-Mendelssohn, "Book Bench,"The New Yorker "[Bierce] defended what he took to be elite usages; he detested vernacular variants, and he had a special animus against expressions with a whiff of business and commerce ("trade") about them. Some of his peeves -- expressed in High Curmudgeon -- were conventional ones at the time, but many were eccentric to the point of idiosyncrasy, and on these the Bierce-Freeman exchanges are especially delightful. -Linguist Arnold Zwicky, "Language Log" "A hundred years ago, knuckle-rapper Ambrose Bierce cranked out a compendium of usage rules:Write It Right. Now Jan Freeman, language columnist for the Boston Globe, has published an annotated version of Bierce's bugbears:Ambrose Bierce's Write It Right. You'll savor Freeman's bright and breezy commentary on Bierce's often daffy dicta." -Rob Kyffe, "The Word Guy", Freeman, with her extensive explanations, comes off as the more practical and knowledgeable, but much of Bierce's greatness lies in his biting, snooty formulations. 'Ancestrally vulgar,' he'll sniff about one word, rolling his eyes ... or 'irreclaimably degenerate.' What fun!
Copyright Date
2009
Target Audience
Trade
Topic
Grammar & Punctuation, General, Linguistics / Etymology
Lccn
2009-019199
Dewey Decimal
428
Dewey Edition
22
Genre
Language Arts & Disciplines
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