Wretched Writing-Language and Linguistics-買書書 BuyBookBook
Wretched Writing-Language and Linguistics-買書書 BuyBookBook

Wretched Writing

A Compendium of Crimes Against the English Language

Kathryn Petras (Author) • Ross Petras (Author) ... more
Edition: US - Paperback / softback
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HK$153.00 HK$240.00
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Product Info
English • Age Adult - Adult
224 pages • 5.5 x 8.25 x 0.6 in
Approx. weight: 0.45 lb
Publication date: 06 Aug,2013
Barcode: 9780399159244 • TarcherPerigee
More books in English for Age Adult - Adult
Language and Linguistics
  • Language learning: grammar vocabulary and pronunciation
  • Creative writing and creative writing guides
  • Language learning: writing skills
  • Humour
  • Language: history and general works

Description

By: Kathryn Petras, Ross Petras    
Wretched writing is the lowest of the low; it is a felonious assault on the English language. Exuberantly excessive, it is a sin committed often by amateurs and all-too-frequently by gifted writers having an off day. In short, it’s very bad writing. Truly bad. Appallingly bad.

It’s also very funny.

A celebration of the worst writing imaginable, Wretched Writing includes inadvertently filthy book titles, ridiculously overwrought passages from novels, bombastic and confusing speeches, moronic oxymorons, hyperactive hyperbole, horribly inappropriate imagery in ostensibly hot sex scenes, mangled clichés, muddled metaphors, and unintended double entendres.

Sit back and enjoy these deliciously dreadful samples, and try not to cringe too much.

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