[PDF] Very Nice Ways To Say Very Bad Things eBook

Author : Linda Berdoll
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 28,69 MB
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1402229836

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At a loss for words, hockey puck? You can always quote Shakespeare... Or delve into this entertaining compendium of insults and verbal abuse, all couched in language of the most uplifting nature. Filled with common and not-so-common zingers that will both shock you and make you laugh your @$$! off. Includes: Exactly how to address individual mounds of foul, undigested lumps of donkey entrails That "F"-ing word and other intensives Many, many ways to refer to the part that goes over the fence last More euphemisms, synonyms, phrases and descriptions than you knew existed for sexual activities, proclivities, untoward incidents, accidents of nature and the beast with two backs Addressing the mentally incompetent, the cerebrally challenged, the absurdly bureaucratic, the impossibly rational and other instances of ineptitude, obfuscation or obstruction and much more!

Author : Linda Berdoll
Publisher : Well, There It is Publishers
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 16,64 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Domestic fiction
ISBN : 9780967481715

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A humorous look at euphemisms including pertinent quotes and limericks

Author : Harold S. Kushner
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 16,98 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0805241930

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Offers an inspirational and compassionate approach to understanding the problems of life, and argues that we should continue to believe in God's fairness.

Author : Paula Blank
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,42 MB
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1503607585

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For all that we love and admire Shakespeare, he is not that easy to grasp. He may have written in Elizabethan English, but when we read him, we can't help but understand his words, metaphors, and syntax in relation to our own. Until now, explaining the powers and pleasures of the Bard's language has always meant returning it to its original linguistic and rhetorical contexts. Countless excellent studies situate his unusual gift for words in relation to the resources of the English of his day. They may mention the presumptions of modern readers, but their goal is to correct and invalidate any false impressions. Shakesplish is the first book devoted to our experience as modern readers of Early Modern English. Drawing on translation theory and linguistics, Paula Blank argues that for us, Shakespeare's language is a hybrid English composed of errors in comprehension—and that such errors enable, rather than hinder, some of the pleasures we take in his language. Investigating how and why it strikes us, by turns, as beautiful, funny, sexy, or smart, she shows how, far from being the fossilized remains of an older idiom, Shakespeare's English is also our own.

Author : Jason Travis Ott
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 31,31 MB
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1682688003

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This recondite caboodle of glosses panegyrizes the boggles of our palaver.* Words confirm and deny, guarantee and deceive, elucidate and obfuscate. The more words you know, the better you can express yourself and the more you can do in life. The founder of Grandiloquent Word of the Day accordingly presents a voluptuary of verbiage encompassing rare and obscure terms that confound or delight, antiquated argot from myriad epochs, and lexemes for venturesome bibliophiles. Featuring a short, insightful introduction, Grandiloquent Words offers more than 250 preternatural terminologies for you to ingurgitate and brandish with aplomb for countless occasions. Bask in cataracts of mundane morphemes, bookish locutions, beef-witted blatteroons, corporeal catastrophes, playful patois, and jolly jubilations. These always-extra expressions encompass timeless topics and modern phenomena, painting a group portrait of our foibles and joys. Replete with pronunciations, etymologies, examples, and whimsical illustrations, it will edify and entertain. *This rare collection of definitions celebrates the marvels of our language.

Author : Michelle Manville
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 30,11 MB
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 1475816820

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Common Core State Standards for Grade 9: Language Arts Instructional Strategies and Activities is designed to help teachers address Common Core standards using effective, research-based instructional strategies in combination with ready-to-use activities. These strategies include identifying similarities and differences, writing summaries and taking notes, creating non-linguistic representations, and suggestions for homework and practice. There are a variety of suggested texts as well as identified text exemplars that can easily be used with the strategies and activities. Some additional key features of this book include: Each instructional strategy is described in detail and includes lists of activities that would complement the strategy. A list of standards and strands is given for each grade level. Chapters are designed to focus on specific strands and contain lists of detailed activities for the standards within the strand. Many activities address multiple standards within the activity. Each activity contains focus standards and many contain suggested works. Standards citations are listed at the end of each activity. Many standards are addressed more than once throughout the strands. Sample activity formats and questions can be found in the appendix.

Author : Judith Viorst
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 38,11 MB
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1416985956

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Recounts the events of a day when everything goes wrong for Alexander. Suggested level: junior, primary.

Author : Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher : Merriam-Webster Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,63 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780877798507

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'The Merriam-Webster Thesaurus' offers over 157,000 synonyms, antonyms, related and contrasted words and idioms, all alphabetically organised with brief definitions of shared meanings.

Author : Pat Zietlow Miller
Publisher :
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1626723214

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A thoughtful picture book illustrating the power of small acts of kindness, from the award-winning author of Sophie's Squash.