Just My Typo
Autor Drummond Moiren Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 iul 2014
It's time to accept the truth: typos are everywhere. Legal documents are riddled with errors, headlines of respectable publications are rife with misspellings, and even your favorite books need a few reprints to get everything right. Isn't it time we learned to laugh at our mistakes instead of despairing? "Just My Typo" is an irresistible collection of the most humorous, mistakenly poignant, and downright awful typos in texts, from the Bible to insurance advertisements to political slogans.
Within these pages, you'll travel back in time with great figures from history, such as Sir Francis Drake (who circumcised the world in a small ship) and Rambo (the famous French poet). You'll also find valuable moral instruction ("Blessed are the meek, for they shall irrigate the earth."), and meet politicians who exploit disasters to boost their pubic profiles. Structured according to categories (such as, "To Be or To Be: Typos in Literature"), you'll easily find either a quick laugh or a relaxing--and cringe-inducing--read. A few more of the gems within:
- "The Queen pissed graciously over the Menai Bridge."
- "I am certain of one thing. Whatever may come between us--and wherever he may be on earth--Arthur will always remember that I love ham." (The Parting, Millicent Hemming)
- "Love is just a passing fanny."
Editors, proofreaders, and writers everywhere pull their hair out trying to eliminate mistakes, to no avail. Celebrating the humanity of our errors and the timelessness of mistakes, "Just My Typo" is essential reading for anyone who values the power and peril of the written word.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780385346603
ISBN-10: 0385346603
Pagini: 181
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN-10: 0385346603
Pagini: 181
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
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From the sublime to the ridiculous, Just My Typo is a hilarious collection of typographical errors, slips of the pen and embarrassing misprints which, like any typo of any kind, should never have happened, cannot be excused, and must not in any way be glorified. Enjoy.
You'll travel back in time to meet great figures from history: Sir Francis Drake (who circumcised the world in a small ship), Queen Victoria (who pissed graciously over the Menai Bridge), and Rambo (the famous French poet).
You'll find moral instruction ('Blessed are the meek, for they shall irrigate the earth') and pearls of wisdom ('love is just a passing fanny').
You'll be outraged by politicians who exploit disasters to boost their pubic profiles; entranced by lambs that gamble in the fields; concerned for a man who was admitted to hospital suffering from severe buns; and appalled to meet 11-year-old twins Helen and Ugh.
From the sublime to the ridiculous, Just My Typo is a hilarious collection of typographical errors, slips of the pen and embarrassing misprints which, like any typo of any kind, should never have happened, cannot be excused, and must not in any way be glorified. Enjoy.
You'll travel back in time to meet great figures from history: Sir Francis Drake (who circumcised the world in a small ship), Queen Victoria (who pissed graciously over the Menai Bridge), and Rambo (the famous French poet).
You'll find moral instruction ('Blessed are the meek, for they shall irrigate the earth') and pearls of wisdom ('love is just a passing fanny').
You'll be outraged by politicians who exploit disasters to boost their pubic profiles; entranced by lambs that gamble in the fields; concerned for a man who was admitted to hospital suffering from severe buns; and appalled to meet 11-year-old twins Helen and Ugh.
Recenzii
'Prefect. A grate book!'
The typo: creator of angst and giggles. Best not read this in public, as you will laugh out loud. Or have the urge to nudge the stranger sitting next to you, just so you can tell them about that hilarious thing you just read. Like how Hitler had a ruthless gazpacho. Or how Rambo was a famous French poet. Or how... oh, just read the damn thing.
This is one of the most abusing books around. Amusing. I meant amusing. With an M. Listen, someone had to do that joke, why not me?
Picked as one of the Guardian Books of the Year: 'You could put a gentle reminder in your card that "gift" has been used as a verb since the 16th century, and gift a book about language'.
Hilarious! Don't read it through in one sitting, tempting as it might be to see what's over the page. You do reach a stage where it's difficult for onlookers to establish if you're convulsed with laughter or in need of medical assistance.
Delightful... as an 1864 edition of the Bible suggested, ''Rejoice and be exceedingly clad!''
King of the stocking filler books this Christmas... Essentially it's the best most fun chunks of the internet that you're thrilled to see when you're hungover.
Hard to suppress the snorts of laughter when reading this jolly collection of spelling mistakes, sub-editing disasters and misprints.
A Guardian Best Stocking-Filler Book 2012.
'Roundly entertaining... the pedant's stocking filler for 2012'.
The typo: creator of angst and giggles. Best not read this in public, as you will laugh out loud. Or have the urge to nudge the stranger sitting next to you, just so you can tell them about that hilarious thing you just read. Like how Hitler had a ruthless gazpacho. Or how Rambo was a famous French poet. Or how... oh, just read the damn thing.
This is one of the most abusing books around. Amusing. I meant amusing. With an M. Listen, someone had to do that joke, why not me?
Picked as one of the Guardian Books of the Year: 'You could put a gentle reminder in your card that "gift" has been used as a verb since the 16th century, and gift a book about language'.
Hilarious! Don't read it through in one sitting, tempting as it might be to see what's over the page. You do reach a stage where it's difficult for onlookers to establish if you're convulsed with laughter or in need of medical assistance.
Delightful... as an 1864 edition of the Bible suggested, ''Rejoice and be exceedingly clad!''
King of the stocking filler books this Christmas... Essentially it's the best most fun chunks of the internet that you're thrilled to see when you're hungover.
Hard to suppress the snorts of laughter when reading this jolly collection of spelling mistakes, sub-editing disasters and misprints.
A Guardian Best Stocking-Filler Book 2012.
'Roundly entertaining... the pedant's stocking filler for 2012'.