Spinglish - The Definitive Dictionary of Deliberately Deceptive Language

Informationen zum Autor Henry Beard, Christopher Cerf Klappentext Spinglish-the devious dialect of English used by professional spin doctors-is all around us. And the fact is! until you've mastered it! politicians and corporations (not to mention your colleagues and friends) will continue putting things over on you! and generally getting the better of you! every minute of every day-without your even knowing it. However! once you perfect the art of terminological inexactitude! you'll be the one manipulating and one-upping everyone else! And here's the beauty part: Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf! authors of the New York Times semi-bestseller The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook! have compiled this handy yet astonishingly comprehensive lexicon and translation guide-a fictionary! if you will-to help you do just that. If you want to succeed in business (or politics! sports! the arts! or life in general) without really lying! this is the book for you! (Your results may vary.) Spinglish includes these nifty bits of spurious verbiage and over a thousand more: aesthetic procedure - face-lift dairy nutrients - cow manure enhanced interrogation techniques - torture "For your convenience." - "For our convenience." hands-on mentoring - sexual relations with a junior employee incomplete success - failure rightsizing - firing people zero-tasking - doing nothing With each and every entry sourced from some of the greatest real-life language benders in the world today! you're virtually guaranteed to have the perfectly chosen tried-and-untrue term right at the tip of your forked tongue. Wish you could nimbly sidestep a question without batting an eye? Not sure how to apologize while also . . . not apologizing? Spinglish has you covered. Simply consult this convenient! shoot-from-the-lip glossary! and before you know it! you'll be telling it like it isn't! it wasn't! and it couldn't ever have been. Leseprobe contents introduction Do you speak Spinglish? Well, if you speak English , chances are you’ve been using Spinglish for a long time, most likely without even knowing it. For example, have you ever overslept and missed a meeting and blamed your absence on a “scheduling error”? Tried to weasel out of a parking ticket because of an alleged “meter malfunction”? Explained that a bounced check was merely the result of an “unanticipated negative cash-balance accounting issue”? Or, when you noticed that your hospital had billed you for a “disposable mucus recovery system,” did you figure out they were charging you fifteen bucks for a box of Kleenex? Are you aware that whenever companies say “for your convenience,” they actually mean “for our convenience”? If you answered yes to even one of these questions, you’re already on the road to mastering the devious vocabulary of verbal distortion, and with our indispensable bilingual dictionary as your guide, odds are you’ll soon be earning your B.S. in B.S.—or, better still, a coveted Spin Doctorate. And even if you’re a rank beginner, don’t despair: Spinglish: The Definitive Dictionary of Deliberately Deceptive Language is virtually guaranteed to teach you how to succeed in business, politics—and everything else—without really lying! But what precisely is Spinglish? Well, in spite of its polyglot-sounding name, it isn’t some foreign language. It’s just our native tongue, transformed into a sophisticated method of judicious miscommunication through the use of careful word choice and the artful rephrasing and reframing of familiar terms. To put it another way (which, of course, is what Spinglish is designed to do), it all comes down to making me sound better, or you sound worse, or both. I’m a freedom fighter, you’re a terrorist. I want to enhance revenues, you want to raise taxes. My prod...

Product details

• Authors: Henry Beard, Henry/ Cerf Beard, Christopher Cerf
• Publisher: Blue Rider Press PRH US
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.06.2015
• EAN: 9780399172397
• ISBN: 978-0-399-17239-7
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 198 mm x 32 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire