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Richard Lederer

    Richard Lederer sa zameriava na jazyk, históriu a humor, pričom skúma zložitosť a radosti ľudskej komunikácie. Jeho diela, plné postrehov a humoru, ponúkajú čitateľom obohacujúci pohľad na silu slov. Prostredníctvom svojich rozsiahlych publikácií a častých rozhlasových vystúpení zdieľa svoju vášeň pre lingvistiku a schopnosť nachádzať zábavu v každodennej reči.

    Alphabet Avenue
    Nothing Risque, Nothing Gained
    Crazy English
    Comma Sense
    Anguished English
    • 2005

      Comma Sense

      • 160 stránok
      • 6 hodin čítania
      3,8(19)Ohodnotiť

      Fans of "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" will delight in this collection from one ofAmerica's favorite grammarians. 15 illustrations.

      Comma Sense
    • 1997

      Alphabet Avenue

      Wordplay in the Fast Lane

      • 365 stránok
      • 13 hodin čítania

      Book by Morice, Dave

      Alphabet Avenue
    • 1996

      Anguished English

      An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language

      • 192 stránok
      • 7 hodin čítania
      3,8(45)Ohodnotiť

      Anguished English is the impossibly funny anthology of accidental assaults upon our common language. From bloopers and blunders to Signs of the Times to Mixed-Up Metaphors . . . from Two-Headed Headlines to Mangling Modifiers . . . it's a collection that will leave you roaring with delight and laughter.

      Anguished English
    • 1995

      Nothing Risque, Nothing Gained

      Ribald Riddles, Lascivious Limericks, Carnal Corn, and Other Good, Clean Dirty Fun

      • 292 stránok
      • 11 hodin čítania

      This celebration of verbal ingenuity on impolite subjects includes puns of every sort, spoonerisms, Tom Swifties, and a grand Dirty Dictionary.

      Nothing Risque, Nothing Gained
    • 1990

      Crazy English

      The Ultimate Joy Ride Through Our Language

      • 188 stránok
      • 7 hodin čítania
      3,9(377)Ohodnotiť

      In what other language, asks Lederer, do people drive on a parkway and park in a driveway, and your nose can run and your feet can smell? In CRAZY ENGLISH, Lederer frolics through the logic-boggling byways of our language, discovering the names for phobias you didn't know you could have, the longest words in our dictionaries, and the shortest sentence containing every letter in the alphabet. You'll take a bird's-eye view of our beastly language, feast on a banquet of mushrooming food metaphors, and meet the self-reflecting Doctor Rotcod, destined to speak only in palindromes.

      Crazy English