Word Court : Wherein Verbal Virtue Is Rewarded, Crimes Against the Language Are Punished, and Poetic Justice Is Done
de Wallraff, Barbara
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- Used - Like New
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- 0151003815
- ISBN 13
- 9780151003815
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In 1993, the Atlantic Monthly's senior editor Barbara Wallraff began answering grammar questions on America Online. Instantaneously the site became one of AOL's most popular forums, as questions, and responses to Wallraff's responses, came flooding in. This vibrant exchange became the bimonthly "Word Court" in the Atlantic Monthly, and the "Miss Manners of Grammar" was born. In Word Court, Wallraff moves beyond her column to tackle common and uncommon items, establishing rules for such issues as turns of phrase, slang, name usage, punctuation, and newly coined vocabulary. With true wit, she deliberates and decides on the right path for lovers of language, ranging from classic questions-is "a historical" or "an historical" correct?-to awkward issues-How long does someone have to be dead before we should all stop calling her "the late"? Should you use "like" or "as"-and when? The result is a warmly humorous, reassuring, and brilliantly perceptive tour of how and why we speak the way we do.
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- Better World Books (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 16219674-75
- Título
- Word Court : Wherein Verbal Virtue Is Rewarded, Crimes Against the Language Are Punished, and Poetic Justice Is Done
- Autor
- Wallraff, Barbara
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Trade Cloth
- ISBN 10
- 0151003815
- ISBN 13
- 9780151003815
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Lugar de publicación
- Ny
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 2000-01-18
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