The Fight For English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, And Left,New

The Fight For English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, And Left,New

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Weve All Been Taught That This Sentence'Driving In From The Airport, The Flags Flapped Furiously'Is Wrong, Wrong, Wrong. But Is It, Asks David Crystal. Everyone Knows What This Sentence Means. No One Actually Thinks That The Flags Were Driving The Car. Is This Sentence Really Incorrect.In The Fight For English, Crystal Offers A Stimulating Account Of The Struggle Between Various Schools Of Grammar To Control How We Write And Speak. Ranging Back A Thousand Years, To The Anguished Concerns Of Aelfric The Grammarian, And Illuminating The Contributions Of Samuel Johnson, Noah Webster, And Many Others, The Book Sheds Light On Ten Centuries Of Warfare Over Spelling, Punctuation, Pronunciation, And Much More. The Author Takes To Task Such Takenoprisoners Grammarians As The Wellknown Lynn Truss (Whose Eats, Shoots, And Leaves Was A Giant Bestseller), Arguing That We Should Say No To Zerotolerance Prescriptive Rules. Indeed, As One Of The World'S Leading Authorities On The English Language, Crystal Offers An Original And Authoritative Counterargument To The Prescriptive Agenda. He Shows For Instance That Context Is Very Important, That The Dangling Participle 'Driving In From The Airport' Is Not Wrong Because The Context Makes The Meaning Clear. Moreover, Even The Hope For A Standard System Of Spelling Is In Vain, Since Approximately 25 Per Cent Of The Words In A Standard Dictionary Have More Than One Spelling (Such As Dark Room And Darkroom And Darkroom).Hailed In The New York Times Book Review As 'Fascinating And Insightful, Often Funny,' The Fight For English Is A Welcome Breath Of Fresh Air In The Often Stultifying Debate Over English Usage.

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