The Evasion-English Dictionary

The Evasion-English Dictionary
Author: Maggie Balistreri
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2018-06-23
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9780692922767


Download The Evasion-English Dictionary Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

"Cultural criticism takes the form of a dictionary in this slender, amusing volume." A must read for a post-factual world, the expanded edition of The Evasion-English Dictionary is an insightful roadmap to popular words and phrases that reveal what we really mean, despite our use of what Richard Lederer called "linguistic camouflage."


The Evasion-English Dictionary
Language: en
Pages: 132
Authors: Maggie Balistreri
Categories: Humor
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-23 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

"Cultural criticism takes the form of a dictionary in this slender, amusing volume." A must read for a post-factual world, the expanded edition of The Evasion-E
The Evasion-English Dictionary
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Maggie Balistreri
Categories: English language
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

The Evasion-English Dictionary
Language: en
Pages: 98
Authors: Maggie Balistreri
Categories: Humor
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Melville House Publishing

GET EBOOK

More than just a dictionary of euphemisms by a hip young linguist, The Evasion-English Dictionary is a merciless translation of the banalities of contemporary s
The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Language: en
Pages: 21043
Authors: Tom Dalzell
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-26 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English,
Weasel Words
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: Paul Wasserman
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Capital Books

GET EBOOK

With more than 1,200 terms, this A to Z dictionary is a hard-hitting, politically savvy translation of all those evasions, put-on-holds, distortions, circumvent