Romps, Tots and Boffins: The Strange Language of News [Audiobook] download free by Robert Hutton
- Listen audiobook: Romps, Tots and Boffins: The Strange Language of News
- Author: Robert Hutton
- Release date: 2013/5/31
- Publisher: ELLIOTT & THOMPSON LIMITED
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Business, Finance and Law
- ISBN: 9781909653436
- Rating: 8.45 of 10
- Votes: 202
- Review by: Chloe Banuelos
- Review rating: 7.28 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/27
- Duration: 1H50M34S in 256 kbps (28.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-20
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: AIFF, WMA, FLAC, WAV, MP3, WavPack, MPEG4 (compression EML, AZW4, BZ, RAR, TAR.Z, ZIP, ACE)
- Total pages original book: 144
- Includes a PDF summary of 12 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 8M32S (2.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Financial Times Gift Books of the Year; Sunday Times Books of the Year - Humour Roundup; Spectator Books of the Year - chosen by Matthew Parris; Where is drunken vandalism always a 'booze-fuelled rampage'?; Where is everyone in uniform a 'hero' and every thief 'heartless'?; Where are market towns always 'bustling' and villages 'sleepy'?; If you have ever picked up a paper, you will have come across 'journalese', the language of news. It's a strange language, a little like English. Without it, how would our intrepid journalists be able to describe a world in which innocent bystanders look on in horror, where tots in peril are saved by have-a-go heroes, and where troubled stars lash out in foul-mouthed tirades?; Robert Hutton has been working around native journalese speakers for two decades, living as one of them and learning their ways, and now he has made their secrets available to the public for the first time. When he first began collecting examples online, he provoked a 'Twitter storm', and was 'left reeling' by the 'scores' of examples that 'flooded in'.He realized that phrases which started as shorthand to help readers have become a dialect that is often meaningless or vacuous to non-journalese speakers.; In a courageous attempt both to wean journalists off their journalese habit, and provide elucidation for the rest of us, Romps, Tots and Boffins catalogues the highs and lows of this strange language, celebrating the best examples ('test-tube baby', 'mad cow disease'), marvelling at the quirky ('boffins', 'frogmen') and condemning the worst ('rant', 'snub', 'sirs'). It's a 'must-read' 'page-turner' that may 'cause a stir', 'fuel controversy', or even 'spark' 'tough new rules' in newsrooms.; Shortlisted for the Political Humour Book of the Year at the PaddyPower Political Book Awards 2014.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Press & Journalism, Journalistic Style Guides, Usage & Grammar Guides, Funny Books & Stories, Media, Information & Communication Industries
- Download servers: Torrent, Microsoft OneDrive, MEGA, KATCR, Demonoid, Uploaded. Compressed in EML, AZW4, BZ, RAR, TAR.Z, ZIP, ACE
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 18.16 USD
- Dimensions: 111x178x16mm
- Weight: 209g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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