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subject:"Humor Topic Language" from books.google.com
A hilarious book that will teach you everything you need to know to be too cool for school: "Your official guide to the language, culture and style of hipsters young and old." —Los Angeles Times hip•ster - \hip-stur (s)\ n.
subject:"Humor Topic Language" from books.google.com
Thanks to social media, we now have a whole Twitterverse of amateur comedians riffing around the world at all hours of the day—and many of them even get popular enough online to go pro and take over TV. In his “smartly structured, ...
subject:"Humor Topic Language" from books.google.com
Fans of "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" will delight in this collection from one ofAmerica's favorite grammarians. 15 illustrations.
subject:"Humor Topic Language" from books.google.com
Euphemania traces the origins of euphemisms from a tool of the church to a form of gentility to today's instrument of commercial, political, and postmodern doublespeak.
subject:"Humor Topic Language" from books.google.com
"Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy." In this extraordinary work of scathing satire, Ambrose Bierce provided new humorous definitions of the words that formed the lexicon of contemporary American life.
subject:"Humor Topic Language" from books.google.com
“You will quite literally, laugh out loud at this collection of hilarious moments [a] teacher . . .culled from his students’ essays over a 25-year career.” —Scholastic Teacher From the very first week of Tim Clancy’s twenty-five ...
subject:"Humor Topic Language" from books.google.com
FUBAR: F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition takes a frank look at the British, Commonwealth, American, German, Japanese and Russian slang used by the men on the ground, and shows how, even in the heat of battle, they somehow managed to retain ...
subject:"Humor Topic Language" from books.google.com
As heard on NPR's "Science Friday," discover the book recommended by Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Daniel Pink, and Adam Grant: an "accessible, informative, and hilarious" introduction to the weird and wonderful world of artificial ...
subject:"Humor Topic Language" from books.google.com
Playful and practical, this is the style book you can't wait to use, a guide that addresses classic questions of English usage with wit and the blackest of humor. Black-and-white illustrations throughout.
subject:"Humor Topic Language" from books.google.com
This book will teach you the practical riches of saying it well with good words, neglected words, precise words for vocabular exaltation.