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Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite - June Casagrande
Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite
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Here's some good news for everyone who's ever been bullied into believing they can't speak their own language: The grammar snobs are bluffing. Half the "rules" they use to humiliate others are really just judgment calls and the rest they don't even understand themselves. In this collection of... show more
Here's some good news for everyone who's ever been bullied into believing they can't speak their own language: The grammar snobs are bluffing. Half the "rules" they use to humiliate others are really just judgment calls and the rest they don't even understand themselves. In this collection of hilarious anecdotes and essays, June Casagrande delivers practical language lessons not found anywhere else, demystifying the subject and taking it back from the snobs.June Casagrande writes a popular and very humorous "A Word, Please" grammar column for five Los Angeles Times Community News papers. She has authored over 900 articles for various newspapers and magazines and has four years of improvisational comedy training, including three with the famed L.A.-based group the Groundlings. In addition to narrating audiobooks, Shelly Frasier has appeared in many independent film and theater projects in Arizona and southern California and has developed character voices for animation projects and voiceover work for commercials. She trained at the Groundlings Improv School in Hollywood and South Coast Reperatory's Professional Conservatory in Costa Mesa, California. She has performed at theaters throughout North Hollywood and Orange County. Recent performances include Blue Window, The Battle of Bull Run Always Makes Me Cry, The Haunting of Hill House, and a British farcical version of A Christmas Carol. She resides in Hollywood.
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Format: ebook
ISBN: 9781101221389 (1101221380)
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 217
Edition language: English
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deborahmarkus7
deborahmarkus7 rated it
5.0 Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite
June Casagrande is my personal deity. You should know that before you read the rest of this review (or while deciding whether or not to do so).She's funny, she's smart, and she knows when to take grammar seriously and when to tell it to get over itself, already.I could quote this book like mad -- an...
Ryan DeJonghe - The Avid Reader
Ryan DeJonghe - The Avid Reader rated it
4.0 Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite
Yes! I read another book about grammar. Yes! I’m crazy. Yes! I just used three sentence fragments. Yes! I’ve purposefully chosen not to use the perfect past participle—except for here. And, yes! That now makes five sentence fragments.Ah, I feel better now. This book has liberated me from the looming...
TheBookofJules
TheBookofJules rated it
After having a long discussion about the difference between "compare to" and "compare with", I decided it was time that I brush up on my grammar skills. This need has become increasingly important to me now that I am a TEFL teacher and my students love to ask me questions about grammar rules, to wh...
suzemo
suzemo rated it
2.0 Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite
Well, there was some interesting/useful information in this book, but overall the humor just fell flat and was really annoying. Either the author thought she is much funnier than she is, or she was trying too hard, or maybe she's just not funny. In any event, it didn't work for me.So grammar snob...
Bücher, Bücher, 100000 Bücher
Bücher, Bücher, 100000 Bücher rated it
5.0
Loved it! It was funny and informative at the same time. I learned a lot and I laughed a lot, although or even because I myself am one of those aforementioned grammar snobs.
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