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Fry's English Delight (BBC Audio) CD
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Amazon
Reveals the uses and misuses of quotations. This title features sick parrots and the cliche crisis that affected the writing of Flaubert, Joyce and Eliot, and helped shape modern language and culture.
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Stephen Fry indulging his delight in the English language. Current Puns: Why does our language groan with the weight of puns? What exactly is a pun? And who or what is the Thief of Bad Gags? Metaphor: the English language is chock-full of maritime metaphors - cock up taken aback. ; ; Four 30 minute Radio 4 programmes presented by Stephen Fry indulging his delight in the English language. ; The 4 programmes in this CD release are: ; CURRENT PUNS - why weak puns and lame jokes are important and oil the social wheels. ; METAPHOR - from the freshly minted to the ancient fossils embedded in our language. ; QUOTATION - literary quotations clever bon mots malapropisms. ; CLICHES - how original coinages gradually become the stock-in-trade of lazy writers.
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Blackwell
Features four programmes on the joys of the English language - as heard on BBC Radio 4 - including Current Puns; Metaphor; Quotation; and, Cliche. Stephen Fry hosts four programmes on the joys of the English language - as heard on BBC...
- 1408409607
- 9781408409602
- 4 June 2009
- BBC Audiobooks Ltd
- Audio CD (CD)
- Audiobook
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