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“Noted linguist Lederer (Anguished English) has a naughty side, which . . . makes this collection of wordplays a bawdily noteworthy achievement.” —Publishers Weekly Have some fun with your native tongue! In The Cunning Linguist, renowned language expert Richard Lederer shows us the naughtier side of wordplay, revealing hundreds of hilarious, ingenious, unabashed, and adults-only puns, jokes, limericks, one-liners, and other adventures in sexual humor. This book of “good, clean dirty fun” will delight word hounds, punsters, bachelor-party goers, and anyone who likes a clever grown-up joke. Here’s a taste of The Cunning Linguist: Q: What does a man have in his pants that you can also find on a pool table? A: Pockets. Have you heard about the incompatible couple? He had no income, and she wasn’t pattable. The four stages of a couple’s sex life: Under 35: Tri-weekly 35-45: Try weekly 45-55: Try weakly 55 and over: Try, try, try. For much more, sneak between the covers of this unique and laugh-out-loud book. “Delightfully raunchy.” —Sidney Sheldon, #1 New York Times–bestselling author
In Watching TV with a Linguist, Fägersten challenges the conventional view of television as lowbrow entertainment devoid of intellectual activity. Rather, she champions the use of fictional television to learn about linguistics and at the same time promotes enriched television viewing experiences by explaining the role of language in creating humor, conveying drama, and developing identifiable characters. The essays gathered in this volume explore specific areas of linguistics, providing a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the study of language. Through programs such as Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Sherlock, and The Wire, contributors deftly illustrate key linguistic concepts and terminology using snippets of familiar dialogue and examples of subtle narration. In addition, contributors aim to raise linguistic awareness among readers by identifying linguistics in action, encouraging readers to recognize additional examples of concepts on their own. To this end, each chapter provides suggestions for viewing other television series or specific episodes, where further examples of the linguistic concepts in focus can be found. Invaluable as a resource in linguistics and communication courses, Watching TV with a Linguist is the first book to use the familiar and compelling medium of television to engage students with the science of language.
Contains a collection of twenty-three essays originally appearing in the journal "Natural Language and Linguistic Theory."
Bundel essays over linguïstiek en fonologie, voornamelijk van het Engels.
As a child, Viktor Cross engaged in a demented game with an older women that festered into a sexual appetite for blood. As a man, to achieve carnal release there must be blood, and there's only one way for him to get it.......kill. When his only friend is murdered, Viktor goes after those responsible, which includes longtime Newark gangster Mack Arsenault. Throw a woman and her young son into the mix, and he must have each base covered...all while dressed as a nightmarish clown. From the demented mind of The Cunning Linguist comes a deviant tale so disturbing, it can only be described as sheer...LUNACY! Also includes the short story poems that inspired the novel: Mind Of A Lunatic & Mind Of The Lunatic: The Murder Show!
Six thousand years. Sixty languages. One “brisk and breezy” whirlwind armchair tour of Europe “bulg[ing] with linguistic trivia” (The Wall Street Journal). Take a trip of the tongue across the continent in this fascinating, hilarious and highly edifying exploration of the many ways and whys of Euro-speaks—its idiosyncrasies, its histories, commonalities, and differences. Most European languages are descended from a single ancestor, a language not unlike Sanskrit known as Proto-Indo-European (or PIE for short), but the continent’s ever-changing borders and cultures have given rise to a linguistic and cultural diversity that is too often forgotten in discussions of Europe as a political entity. Lingo takes us into today’s remote mountain villages of Switzerland, where Romansh is still the lingua franca, to formerly Soviet Belarus, a country whose language was Russified by the Bolsheviks, to Sweden, where up until the 1960s polite speaking conventions required that one never use the word “you.” “In this bubbly linguistic endeavor, journalist and polyglot Dorren thoughtfully walks readers through the weird evolution of languages” (Publishers Weekly), and not just the usual suspects—French, German, Yiddish, irish, and Spanish, Here, too are the esoteric—Manx, Ossetian, Esperanto, Gagauz, and Sami, and that global headache called English. In its sixty bite-sized chapters, Dorret offers quirky and hilarious tidbits of illuminating facts, and also dispels long-held lingual misconceptions (no, Eskimos do not have 100 words for snow). Guaranteed to change the way you think about language, Lingo is a “lively and insightful . . . unique, page-turning book” (Minneapolis Star Tribune).
In the summer of 1992, Nick, Ira, and Kevin were seemingly thrown together by fate to battle a demonic entity that captured the souls of Newark teenagers in Polaroid pictures....and they won. Twenty-five years later the entity is back, and they must come together once again and fight for their very souls, or risk losing it all to the malevolent spirit known as Byron Bell. Trek with three Newark friends from boys to men, as they realize that the big picture is worth... A THOUSAND WORDS!
“Babel is an endlessly interesting book, and you don’t have to have any linguistic training to enjoy it . . . it’s just so much fun to read.” —NPR English is the world language, except that 80 percent of the world doesn’t speak it. Linguist Gaston Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world’s people in their mother tongues, you’d need to know no fewer than twenty languages. In Babel, he sets out to explore these top twenty world languages, which range from the familiar (French, Spanish) to the surprising (Malay, Javanese, Bengali). Whisking readers along on a delightful journey, he traces how these languages rose to greatness while others fell away, and shows how speakers today handle the foibles of their mother tongues. Whether showcasing tongue-tying phonetics, elegant but complicated writing scripts, or mind-bending quirks of grammar, Babel vividly illustrates that mother tongues are like nations: each has its own customs and beliefs that seem as self-evident to those born into it as they are surprising to outsiders. Babel reveals why modern Turks can’t read books that are a mere 75 years old, what it means in practice for Russian and English to be relatives, and how Japanese developed separate “dialects” for men and women. Dorren also shares his experiences studying Vietnamese in Hanoi, debunks ten myths about Chinese characters, and discovers the region where Swahili became the lingua franca. Witty and utterly fascinating, Babel will change how you look at and listen to the world. “Word nerds of every strain will enjoy this wildly entertaining linguistic study.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Casper is a serial killer that's been claiming victims in Newark for years, unfortunately for Jace Harris his girlfriend Candy becomes one of them. Depressed and stricken with grief, Jace invents a time machine with the purpose of going back in time and preventing Candy's murder, but he unfortunately sets in motion a chain of events that unravels time itself, and puts him directly in the center of Casper's murderous crosshairs. Come along with Jace as he attempts to save his girlfriend's life as well as his own, all while trying to stay one step ahead of a notorious murderer. With twists and turns around every corner, follow Jace as he rides along.... THE HANDS OF TIME!
Rich Rhodes would rather die than go back to prison, so what does he do when Newark Police have him cornered on top of a 30-story high rise? He jumps.... Fall with him as each floor that he passes tells another chapter to his story until ultimately you find out how he got up on the roof in the first place. Fall with him through crooked cops, love, money, and murder. But pay close attention, because Rich only has.... 30 STORIES TO TELL!