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Melvyn Bragg angol brit

Tudástár · 10 kapcsolódó alkotó · 1 kapcsolódó könyv · 5 film

KatalógusnévBragg, Melvyn
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Könyvei 4

Melvyn Bragg: The Adventure of English
Melvyn Bragg: Remember Me…
Melvyn Bragg: The Maid of Buttermere
Melvyn Bragg: 12 Books That Changed the World

Antológiák 1

A Love Letter to Europe

Népszerű idézetek

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Johnson’s work heralded and triggered a cavalcade of grammars. Everyone wanted to get hold of English and tell it how to behave. They could not wait to lay their hands on this unruly mob of words and smarten it up, sort it out, establish some discipline down there.
The most interesting grammarian was Joseph Priestley, who was a noted supporter of civil and religious liberties, wrote about electricity, was a radical dissenting preacher, invented carbonated water (fizzy drinks) and nitrous oxide (laughing gas) and discovered carbon dioxide and oxygen.
Science was his chief interest. He also occupied himself with The Rudiments of English Grammar, a book in which he expressed a view, novel for that time, that grammar is defined by common usage and should not be dictated by self-styled grammarians.
He had little impact. The battle was won time and again by the men who knew best.

16. oldal, Mastering the Language

Melvyn Bragg: The Adventure of English The Biography of a Language

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: angol nyelv · nyelvtan
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In the thirty or forty years that bridged 1600, the English language could lay fair claim to being reborn, yet again, but with a self-conscious luxuriance and a world reach quite new. It is as if its appetite, far from being sated by the feast of French which it had digested and turned into English, was whetted and enlarged by it and looked around greedily for more nourishment.

116. oldal A Reneissance of Words

Melvyn Bragg: The Adventure of English The Biography of a Language

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Their written records were meagre compared with the traditions already well established in the rich lands they had all but overrun. Their basic attitude to written language was to burn it, or, more helpfully for the future, toss it aside.

19-20. oldal

Melvyn Bragg: The Adventure of English The Biography of a Language

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: dán · írás · viking
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They were good on words for a drunk. Even before the revolution, Benjamin Franklin listed two hundred twenty-nine! Here are a few of them, set out, as a tribute to those who have been intoxicated (American English), as if they were verse:
He’s casting up his accounts
He’s pissed in the brook
His head is full of bees
He sees the bears
He’s cherry merry
He’s wamble crop’d
He’s half way to Concord
He’s kill’d his dog
He’s eat a toad and a half for breakfast
He’s spoke with his friend
He’s groatable
He’s as dizzy as a goose
He’s globular
He’s loose in the hilts
He’s going to Jerusalem
He clips the King’s English
He sees two moons
He’s eat the cocoa nut
He’s oil’d
He’s been among the Philistines
He’s wasted his paunch
He’s religious
He’s been too free with Sir Richard
He’s like a rat in trouble
He’s double tongu’d
He’s tramel’d
He’s got the Indian vapours
He’s out of the way.

179. oldal Wild West Words

Melvyn Bragg: The Adventure of English The Biography of a Language

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