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- Title: The African Svelte: Ingenious Misspellings That Make Surprising Sense
- Author: Daniel Menaker Roz Chast Billy Collins
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- Page: 118
- Format: Kindle Edition
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This witty little book is the perfect stocking stuffer for the English major in your life.I spoke with the author here facebook poststyle vi
I got this because I was interested in Roz Chast s illustrations, which are nifty The text is well written but over explains the jokes, I think Also, the author misstates the title of a Sylvia Wright book it is actually Get Away From Me With Those Christmas Gifts, and Other Reactions I hope that my unenthusiastic review doesn t hurt the author s self of steam and that he continues to be a pillow of strength in his community.
Phrases with misspelled words can make sense even if the misspelled word changes the meaning of the phrase I m vast asleep on the African svelte.
A collection of unintentional mistakes, some of which make a lot of sense As a person with poor spelling and editing skills, some of these are probably mistakes I ve made or seemed just fine when I looked at them However, there are some very funny examples here too Lucky I m able to eek out a living without having to be an editor or as a last stitch effort I would be reduced to busking.The illustrations by Roz Chast are wonderful I only with there were of them.
This was an interesting book that basically dealt with the grammatical and misspellings of the English language but in a way that allows the reader to understand the fun that the author is poking at these findings And at the same time the book is also working on educating the reader in the right usage of the word and or the right word to be used as well as the origins of the word or words that are being covered There are times throughout the reading that the writing and the telling of the inform [...]
Readers will sometimes use words in speech that they ve never heard, and mispronounce them in logical ways Sveltes are the opposite misspellings of words only heard, yet the written mistake actually makes surprising sense Example handburgers rather than hamburgers because you eat them with your hands , or end trails instead of entrails , because that s the end of the trail for what you eat, or spreading like wildflowers instead of spreading like wildfire , because some wildflowers are really inv [...]
A wonderful collection of our English spelling foibles I giggled my way through this book, as while many of these examples of English abuse mistakes sveltes gaffes new words phrases were not unknown to me, the author provided inlightenment on their origins backstories and sometimes made cases for why these errors made surprising sense.
A fun, smart little book for language lovers Menaker looks at what he calls sveltes word use mistakes that actually make sense I know I have said some of these and others as we so often have a disconnect between the auditory and print So for all intensive purposes this is a great book.
The Roz Chast illustrations were my favorite part, but this was entertaining for certain.
Meh.
Clever and amusing little book shows some of the ins and outs of the human brain, and the intriguing near misses of the English language entertaining read
Some interesting linguistic slips, but the book was kind of hard to read due to Menaker s insistence on connecting the last sentence of each explanation with the svelte on the following page Chast s illustrations are very cute, but I wished there were of them.
Very witty
In this delightfully funny, insightful, and witty book, Menaker explores a written phenomenon that transcends typical grammarian snobbery and instead celebrates the duality and complexity of the English language.Simply speaking and butchering , a svelte is a word that is not the word meant, but has a pleasurable or humorous meaning anyway Perhaps my favorite example from the book is lack toes intolerant Obviously the author meant lactose intolerant, but Menaker doesn t simply correct the mistake [...]
Recently on TV, a presidential spokeswoman, while emphasizing the president s commitment, said, His efforts in this area will be tantamount Perhaps those weren t her exact words, but they were paramount to them Mixups like these are the subject of The African Svelte The gaffes Daniel Menaker cites are unintentionally meaningful spelling errors that are sometimes meaningful than their proper counterparts Because it s a carefully curated book, Menaker s examples are much humorous than the one I [...]
I enjoy wordplay, and in general I enjoyed this collection of plausible implausible and just plain weird versions of common phrases We have all used I am guessing To all intents and purposes, but often we hear or read this new twist of to all intensive purposes Wrong, but somehow, some way, still correct This sort of word misuse is the topic of Menaker s book.Sadly, it did not work well for me Menaker wanted to say much than the reader expected, so I felt bogged down by his lengthy etymologies [...]
Needed Roz Chast Fun for word nerds, but explanations felt too long.
Menaker s Sveltes might have made an amusing article, but it s the merest soap bubble of a book Roz Chast s illustrations eek svelte out the text, but even they failed to enliven this effort.
If you like homonyms, you will like this It is a little too precious at times, especially in that he s dubbed all manner of erroneous misspellings and pseudo homonyms like from the gecko for from the get go as sveltes which is cute once, and hugely tedious by the end of the book It s fun though, and he dives down a lot of linguistic rabbit holes gutta percha anyone It also forces page turning because each chapter entry segues not Segways into the next END OF ONE ENTRYBut there is a disguise that [...]
A little book on language errors that are amusing and sometimes apt than you would expect I enjoyed many of these, but found that the best ones were at the beginning and the concept and originality seemed to be less interesting as the book went on Perhaps I would have enjoyed it if I had not tried to read the whole thing in one fell swoop little tastes would have gone down better.
This book seems to be about 101 incorrect uses of words that are turned into punchlines without jokes Instead the author goes into the history of words to explain the correct and incorrect words I read this after seeing a friend reading it The examples given are humorous which makes the book a good read.
I loved the artwork I enjoyed the stories snippets about each of the word groupings, but I read the book in 1 sitting I got bogged down about halfway through, and found myself skimming I should have simply put it down and read it in smaller segments at a later date, but by then I just wanted it to be done, so I could return it to the library.
I loved the artwork But I made the mistake of reading this book in one sitting Definitely listen to the reviewers who say to read this in small chunks I would have liked it a lot better that way I did laugh at some, until my brain overloaded May have to pick this up again at a less busier time, so I can truly enjoy it.
super fun and refreshingly not prescriptivist or snobby about the english language
This is good in small doses Don t try to read it straight through, like I did Other than that, I really enjoyed it and laughed a lot.
Very fun, although I was a bit disappointed that he didn t tackle site sight unseen
This was a fun read, maybe not quite as fun as it could have been, but enjoyable The book began life as a snarky list of mangled phrases the uber literate author has been collecting for decades, and maybe it should have stayed that way Now, each entry on the list is accompanied by an essay explaining why each mistake seems stupid, but actually has a kernel of wisdom to it, if you go far enough back into the Old English, Norse, or Proto Indo European roots of each word Now, I actually do find the [...]
This was a fun little book that I picked up primarily because it was illustrated by Roz Chast, my favorite New Yorker cartoonist And after having read it, I have to say that the best entries the ones that made me actually laugh had an accompanying illustration by Chast Menaker obviously knew that Rox Chast was THE go to cartoonist for a project of this type.Definitely a book for logophiles, and people who appreciate the humor of misspellings and mispeakings is that a word such as pass mustard fo [...]
Amusing but esoteric.I love words in general, and puns in particular, so I looked forward to this book when a like minded friend recommended it I spent two or three hours reading parts of it and laughing I enjoyed interrupting my husband with puns and mistakes Some of them will stick with us and be incorporated into our patter such as a pillow of strength, a pillow of the community, doggie dog world, and dairy air are our favorites However, one should be a real wordsmith to read this book thorou [...]
Fun quick read of mistakes that are even common now with the internet of writers thinking the term is African svelte, for example, and author Daniel Menaker showing how the meanings of svelte and veldt are actually related My favorite error, in part thanks to Roz Chast s accompanying drawing The terrorist was wearing a baklava.