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An extremely funny history of so-called bad language by a European author. He asserts that Europeans try to get along but keep treading on each other's toes. In this tour of anger, exasperation, prejudice, irony & loathing as expressed in some 20 European tongues, we learn that what is invective in one country is sweet talk in another. A single currency in Europe? Yes. A common language? Not on your life. The Guardian review states that the book's "His gently comic tone recognizes how funny, how much of a release, much bad language can be." "Entertaining, widely informed."
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Your Mother's Tongue, Stephen Burgen
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- Released
- 1997
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- Title
- Your Mother's Tongue
- Subtitle
- A Book of European Invective
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Stephen Burgen
- Publisher
- Phoenix
- Released
- 1997
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0575400900
- ISBN13
- 9780575400900
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- Linguistics
- Original title
- Your mother's tongue
- Rating
- 5 out of 5
- Description
- An extremely funny history of so-called bad language by a European author. He asserts that Europeans try to get along but keep treading on each other's toes. In this tour of anger, exasperation, prejudice, irony & loathing as expressed in some 20 European tongues, we learn that what is invective in one country is sweet talk in another. A single currency in Europe? Yes. A common language? Not on your life. The Guardian review states that the book's "His gently comic tone recognizes how funny, how much of a release, much bad language can be." "Entertaining, widely informed."