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Lädt ... The Rude Story of Englishvon Tom Howell
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This is how history should be told – a raucous, humorous adventure on the heels of foul-mouthed (but ultimately loveable) protagonists. If you put Captain Haddock from Tintin into Highlander as an immortal roaming around England for two millennia (except more of a perpetually hungry Angle warrior), this is the book you'd get. You're welcome. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
There are only two problems with the story of the English language: one, no hero. Two, not rude enough. In The Rude Story of English, recovering lexicographer Tom Howell swiftly remedies these and gives us a rousing account of our language - without all the boring bits and with all the interesting parts kept in - and reveals English's boisterous, at times obnoxious, character. From a haphazard beginning in 449 AD, when a legendary, fearsome Germanic warrior named Hengest tripped and fell onto British shores, the real story of English has been rife with accident, physical comedy, phallic monuments, rude behaviour, dubious facts, and an alarming quantity of poetry written by lawyers. Across vast distances of space and time, from the language's origins to its fast-approaching retirement, a moody and miraculously long-lived Hengest voyages to the pubs of Chaucer's London, aboard pirate ships in the north Atlantic, to plantations in Barbados, bookstores in Jamaica, the chilly inlet of Quidi Vidi, Newfoundland, a private men's club in Australia, and beyond. Part Monty Python sketch, part Oxford English Dictionary, The Rude Story of English displays an exuberant love of language and a sharp, anti-authoritarian sense of humour. Entertaining and informative, it looks at English through its most uncomfortable, colourful, and off-putting parts, chronicling the story of the language as it has never been told before. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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All in all, I think I'm more Hengesty than ELF (but maybe that's the French speaking). ( )