Spinglish
The Definitive Dictionary of Deliberately Deceptive Language
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نقد و بررسی
Starred review from August 1, 2015
Echoing their previous publications (The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook and The Official Sexually Correct Dictionary and Dating Guide), Beard and Cerf offer a serious, comprehensive, and informative lexicon of terms and phrases that "spin doctors" have used to put to gloss over real meaning. Instead of surveillance, for example, we find data collection. Spin often requires two or three words when the actual expression can usually be accomplished in one. Strippers are exotic dancers and theft is inventory shrinkage. There are two parts to this alphabetically arranged compendium. The first part translates "Spinglish" into commonly known English equivalents and the second part takes everyday English language terms and morphs them into Spinglish--teacher becomes learning facilitator, for example. Each entry has an appropriate citation, showing the source of the "spin" meaning. VERDICT This book is enlightening and often just plain funny.--Herbert E. Shapiro, Lifelong Learning Soc., Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton
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