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Wretched Writing - A Compendium of Crimes Against the English Language (Paperback) Loot Price: R518
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Wretched Writing - A Compendium of Crimes Against the English Language (Paperback)

Ross Petras, Katherine Petras

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Wretched writing is the lowest of the low; it is a felonious assault on the English language. Exuberantly excessive, it is a sin committed often by amateurs and all-too-frequently by gifted writers having an off day. In short, it's very bad writing. Truly bad. Appallingly bad.
It's also very funny.
A celebration of the worst writing imaginable, "Wretched Writing "includes inadvertently filthy book titles, ridiculously overwrought passages from novels, bombastic and confusing speeches, moronic oxymorons, hyperactive hyperbole, horribly inappropriate imagery in ostensibly hot sex scenes, mangled cliches, muddled metaphors, and unintended double entendres.
Sit back and enjoy these deliciously dreadful samples, and try not to cringe too much.

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Imprint: Tarcher/Perigee
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 2013
First published: 2013
Authors: Ross Petras • Katherine Petras
Dimensions: 208 x 139 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 978-0-399-15924-4
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > Specific skills > Writing skills
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LSN: 0-399-15924-X
Barcode: 9780399159244

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