Title: A Bawdy Language: How a Second-Rate Language Slept Its Way to the Top Richler, Howard
Publisher: Stoddart Pub
Publication Date: 1999
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0773731865
ISBN 13: 9780773731868
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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Richler, who writes a language column for the Montreal Gazette , describes the English language as permeable, inherently chaotic, incredibly fertile, and absolutely faithless. He loves it. Well bred languages, he says, are unable to enjoy the same degree of riddles, anagrams, lipograms, puns, and palindromes. He runs it through its tricks. Being from Montreal, he may have more of a political or cultural message than Americans would necessarily catch. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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