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How to Talk American
Jim Crotty
其他書名
A Guide to Our Native Tongues
出版Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1997
主題Humor / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / ReferenceLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Speech & PronunciationReference / Word Lists
ISBN97803957803290395780322
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=SLHxRYFWH1UC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋For twelve years Jim Crotty has been traveling this great country in his roving Monkmobile, and in the process has discovered how we Americans REALLY speak, what we REALLY think of ourselves and others. From coast to coast and border to border - from Bible Belt Banter to Vegas Vernacular, Latte Lingo to Santa Fe Semantics, Redneck Rhetoric to New England Niceties - there's something in this book for everyone in every state (and several states of mind). How to Talk San Francisco: San Franciscans have the highest urban attitude quotient outside Paris, so they don't care if their city is real or not, or if it's American or not. Theirs is the language of the good life, a snapshot of bourgeois hell. How to Talk Boston: Boston is the source of one of the most distinctive, if dying, regional accents in America. One hallmark of it is the s-word pronunciation: "PSDS" (pierced ears), "CS" (Sears), "TS" (tears), as in, "The TS of a clown when there's no one around."