Write it Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults Ambrose Bierce 9781530925070 Books
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Write it Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults Ambrose Bierce 9781530925070 Books
An entertaining and thought provoking book. I never realized that to "climb down" was a contradiction, and many more. Unfortunately I believe grammar purists have already lost the logic battle. American speech train has long since left the depot. If we are to communicate today, then we must conform. Let us say that Bierce is being prescriptive, not descriptive.Product details
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Write it Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults Ambrose Bierce 9781530925070 Books Reviews
This book is a long alphabtical list of literary faults by Ambrose Bierce (an American writer). It is mostly his own 'pet peeves' but this makes it amusing to read as he lists the correct way to say it, and often sounds very angry about the wrong way!! So I would recommend this book if you want to read about the formal 'correct' way to say anything, eg 'I assumed a disguise' instead of 'I adopted a disguise'. He says you 'only adopt a child, not a disguise' )
Bierce has composed a useful guide for writers, and it it remains a good resource.
However, you need to take a good deal of this with a grain of salt. Many of the decisions Bierce makes about certain words are rather questionable. The book is old, and Bierce was very much a traditionalist and a pedantic. He was resisting many trends in English that now have become defacto standards. He makes a lot of good points, but sometimes we need to go with the flow, even if certain word choices, as Bierce points out, are quite silly.
This review itself is probably evidence that I haven't assimilated all of the lessons from Bierce, but I hope it causes me to think more about the words I use in the future and maybe integrate some of his advice.
A good reference book - It reads like a dictionary, but certainly has its charms.
When I was a young man I lived awhile with my stepgrandfather in San Diego, California. I remember he had a slim red volume called 'Write It Right', by Ambrose Bierce. It must have been a first edition, from around 1911, when he was around 21. He had penciled into the flyleaf, "He is at variance with Webster on several points." Gramps prided himself on good grammar and liked working crosswords and the Kingsley Double-Crostics that were published weekly at the back of the 'Saturday Review'. I enjoyed leafing through the Bierce, and noting with interest his preference for treating the noun 'the United States' as a plural. This, it seemed to me, reflected a conservative outlook that preceded, and resisted, federal efforts at promoting a strong sense of national unity. And that is where I place the value of this little volume, as an interesting historical relic of the English language as it was once spoken. Its standards are a lot tighter than our own, and for that reason I recommend it as a guide to the thought patterns of our ancestors living in that now remote time.
An entertaining and thought provoking book. I never realized that to "climb down" was a contradiction, and many more. Unfortunately I believe grammar purists have already lost the logic battle. American speech train has long since left the depot. If we are to communicate today, then we must conform. Let us say that Bierce is being prescriptive, not descriptive.
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