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The Superior Person's Field Guide to Deceitful, Deceptive & Downright Dangerous Language - Hardcover
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The Superior Persons Field Guide is a call for the return to simple, straightforward words that say what they mean and mean what they say. Most of us know that downsizing means that youre about to be fired, but have you ever heard its business-speak cousins offshoreable or cash-flow episode? with his customary wit and clear-sightedness, Bowler cuts a swath through the thickets of popular jargon, casting daylight on such linguistic deformities as interrogate with prejudice (that is, torture) and unforeseen geological event (a mining disaster). Impatient with euphemism, he examines ugly specimens forced into bloom in the interests of political correctness - waitperson, developmentally challenged designed to help the squeamish avoid direct confrontation with the simple facts of sex and disability. Here are circumlocutions that make the disagreeable seem agreeable, the unacceptable acceptable, and here is Peter Bowler, as always, trying to set the record, and the English language, straight.
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Review
A lexicon devoid of practical value but replete with entertaining possibilities. ... Not for the faint of wit.
About the Author
Peter Bowler - educator, author, and curmudgeon - spent many years in management, where he discovered a whole new subset to the English language - Business-speak.
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- PublisherNewSouth Publishing
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1742230059
- ISBN 13 9781742230054
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages128
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