Ebook {Epub PDF} Crazy English by Richard Lederer

 · From: Richard Lederer Reply-To: bltadwin.rur@bltadwin.ru To: janlee@bltadwin.ru Subject: citation please. I'm always delighted to see my work so widely distributed on the Net. I do, however, prefer attribution. Your page "English is a . ENGLISH IS A CRAZY LANGUAGE. RICHARD LEDERER. Concord, New HaITIpshire. The English language is the ITIost widely spoken in the history of our planet. The English language has acquired the largest vocabulary and the noblest literature in the history of the hUITIan race. Nonetheless, English is . Crazy English An Excerpt from the Introduction. by Richard Lederer [Many of these are mere wordplay, but several are linguistic anomalies. One interesting thing the author doesn't note is that in English one tells a lie, but the truth. Try explaining that to a six-year-old. -ojo].

Richar Lederer's point of view in the essay English is a Crazy Language is agreeable. He complains about words and phrases and how they don't have the same meaning, but use the same words. For example he says, "How can sharp speech and blunt speech be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites.". From: Richard Lederer Reply-To: bltadwin.rur@bltadwin.ru To: janlee@bltadwin.ru Subject: citation please. I'm always delighted to see my work so widely distributed on the Net. I do, however, prefer attribution. Your page "English is a Crazy Language" is a piece of mine. "Crazy English", by an American folk-linguist, Richard Lederer, asks "how is it that your nose can run and your feet can smell?". Bill Bryson's "Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way" says that "English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner Imagine being a foreigner and having to learn that in English one.

Richard Lederer is the author of more than 30 books about language, history, and humor, including his best-selling Anguished English series and his current book, Presidential Trivia. He has been profiled in magazines as diverse as The New Yorker, People, and the National Enquirer and frequently appears on radio as a commentator on language. Richard Lederer is the author of more than 30 books about language, history, and humor, including his best-selling Anguished English series and his current book, Presidential Trivia. He has been profiled in magazines as diverse as The New Yorker, People, and the National Enquirer and frequently appears on radio as a commentator on language. Dr. Crazy English by Richard Lederer Let’s face it: English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant or ham in hamburger, neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins were not invented in England or french fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat. We take English for granted.