Category: Language Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN-10: 1250006635
Copyright: June 18, 2013
ISBN-13: 9781250006639
How to Be a Language Snob Without Being a Jerk
A book about rights and wrongs
-- and why notwrongdoesn't
necessarily mean right.
Are you a language snob? Could you care less? Literally? Welcome to the club! But beware: You probably don't know as much as you think you do. And the people who know the most are the least likely to share your pet peeves. Think it's wrong to say "I could care less" when you mean "I couldn't care less"? To say "literally" when you mean figuratively? Wrong, the experts will tell you. And they're right, in a way. In his long-awaited follow-up to Lapsing Into a Comma and The Elephants of Style, Bill Walsh argues with the sticklers and the apologists and sometimes himself on the various fronts in the language wars -- and wonders whether they amount to warfare at all or just a big misunderstanding.
Part usage manual, part confessional and part manifesto, Yes, I Could Care Less bounces from sadomasochism to weather geekery, from “Top Chef” to Monty Python, from the chile of New Mexico to the daiquiris of Las Vegas, with Walsh’s distinctive take on the way we write and talk. It is a lively and often personal look at one man’s continuing journey through the obstacle course that some refer to, far too simply, as “grammar.”
This programmed, self-paced lesson focuses exclusively on the use of postpostions (ga and (w)o) with grammatical objects in the Japanese language without wavering or getting off track in the labyrinth of Japanese syntax and other grammatical issues.
