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1. Verfasser: Barzun, Jacques 1907-2012 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Middletown, Conn. ; Scranton, Pa. Wesleyan University Press ; Distributed by Harper & Row 1986
Ausgabe:1. ed.
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Beschreibung:Contents: Introductory: What are mistakes and why -- Part I: Guidelines -- The positive side of negatives -- "It makes no sense" -- English as she's not taught -- Enigma variations -- Le faux chic -- What makes writing right? -- Part II: Pitfalls -- Look for trouble ahead -- Promiscuous pairs -- Tonier than thou -- Page Mrs. Malaprop -- Vulgar, vulgarity, vulgarisms -- Points of passing -- Exercise in discretion -- Part III: False friends -- A copy editor's anthology -- The Naïveté of spelling reform -- Basic English: Whose pidgin is it? -- After Fowler's generation -- Dialogue in c-sharp -- "The rain in Spain," etcetera -- Part IV: "Words apt and gracious" -- What if-? English versus German and French -- A search for roots -- A real personal person -- For us readers' sake -- Mencken's America speaking -- On the necessity of common tongu
Beschreibung:XI, 190 Seiten 23 cm
ISBN:0819551740

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