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The Evasion-English Dictionary: Expanded Edition
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About The Evasion-English Dictionary: Expanded Edition
Product Description “Cultural criticism takes the form of a dictionary in this slender, amusing volume.” A must read for a post-factual world, the expanded edition of The Evasion-English Dictionary is an insightful roadmap to popular words and phrases that reveal what we really mean, despite our use of what Richard Lederer called “linguistic camouflage.” Review "An excellent thinking tool for speakers and listeners: how not to say it and why." --Daniel Dennett "The brilliant writing, lucid thinking, and authentic passion in these pages make The Evasion-English Dictionary one of the most readable and incisive exposures of linguistic camouflage I have ever encountered." -- Richard Lederer, Anguished English " Done with such gorgeous logic and good humor that you feel the terrible urge to read bits of it out loud to those nearest and dearest to you." --Erin McKean, lexicographer, founder of Wordnik.com "Actually, pretty good!"--The Belladonna Comedy "It's Ambrose Bierce meets Erving Goffman!" --Christopher Roth "A smart bomb aimed at sneaky, self-deluded language.... It's not news that ["actually'] is an early warning sign of mansplaining, but no one has plumbed the nuances of its nincompoopery like Balistreri." -- Mark Peters, Visual Thesaurus " A slim volume expanded from its original 2003 edition , the EED packs considerable insight and wit into its 132 pages, showing how we routinely choose (and avoid) certain words to massage the truth, let ourselves off the hook, and passive-aggressively get our own way."--Stan Carey About the Author Maggie Balistreri is a namer and taxonomist in NY. She is the author of There Was a Young Lady Who Swallowed a Lie and A Balistreri Collection (ABC poems). As Maude Spekes and with Sybilia Grogan, Maggie co-edited the anthology Jabberfucky and other poems and edited OMGZilla: The Book of Genesis with color illustrations by John Bergdahl.
