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    Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide To Language For Fun & Spite
    Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide To Language For Fun & Spite
    Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide To Language For Fun & Spite
    Audiobook5 hours

    Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide To Language For Fun & Spite

    Written by June Casagrande

    Narrated by Shelly Frasier

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    About this audiobook

    Here's some good news for everyone who's ever been bullied into believing they can't speak their own language: The grammar snobs are bluffing. Half the "rules" they use to humiliate others are really just judgment calls and the rest they don't even understand themselves. Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies is a laugh-out-loud funny collection of anecdotes and essays on grammar and punctuation, as well as hilarious critiques of the self-appointed language experts.

    In this collection of hilarious anecdotes and essays, June Casagrande delivers practical language lessons not found anywhere else, demystifying the subject and taking it back from the snobs.

    "Casagrande brings a lively approach to her overview of basic grammar."-Booklist

    "...Fraser's reading is robust and articulate, and it fully captures Casagrande's sense of humor and witty repartee. Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies is an excellent and entertaining way of learning, or simply reviewing, the fundamentals of English grammar and punctuation."-Reviewed by Auggie Moore, Large Print Reviews
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateApr 1, 2006
    ISBN9781400172184
    Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide To Language For Fun & Spite

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    • 4/5
      This was an audiobook with excellent narration by the author. Although text might be the preferable format for this topic, it was easy to follow. Casagrande is entertaining in this humorous and light-hearted grammar lesson. The good news: grammar rules are not nearly as scary as you think. It was not only worthwhile, but an enjoyable book.
    • 4/5
      I majored in English in college. So perhaps it is no surprise that I enjoyed a book which is, essentially, about grammar. (I don’t claim to use all of the information contained in said book correctly. I am not a grammar snob. So there.) I have actually enjoyed two books about grammar, but we’re only talking about one of them at the moment. I think that June Casagrande used many of her newspaper columns to make up this book. (She writes a grammar column.) The chapters are short, and while this suits the subject matter, it also suits the length a newspaper column would be. Each chapter is nicely contained and can be read really in any order, though some of them do reference prior chapters. They also contain wonderfully humorous snippets and chapter titles such as: * “I’ll take ‘I Feel Like A Moron’ for $200, Alex” * “I’m Writing This While Naked” * “Do you know what a question mark is? If you don’t, then you can’t understand the last sentence, which means you’re no longer reading, which means the only people still reading are the ones who don’t need question marks defined.” * and “…a team of Santa Monica [police] officers stormed into a crime scene and ordered several suspects to make love on the floor.”It’s a truly amusing book for those who are willing to accept that they might not always use proper grammar. (I don’t.) Also, if you consider yourself a grammar snob (or, as Lynne Truss of Eats, Shoots & Leaves puts it, a “stickler”) who wants to be better than those of us who don’t know how to properly use transitive verbs, you may want to avoid this book. Because as the title suggests, this book is for the average person who wants a better – and humorous – grasp of the English language.
    • 4/5
      Humorous guide to proper grammar and when it's ok to break the rules. Much dissing of famous grammar snobs ensues. I recommend for all grammar snobs, and those who love them.
    • 3/5
      I'm a sucker for language guides. I thought that the title was tongue-in-cheek and that this would be directed at grammar snobs like me. It wasn't. But it was still both entertaining and useful; what more could one ask?
    • 5/5
      Apart from being entirely useful, June Casagrande's Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies is nothing less than a hoot! She has a style of seemingly off-the-cuff writing that makes an otherwise tedious subject quite easily digestible.

      Grammar- and East Coast-snob than I am, I would never have imagined that a Southern California girl could pull this off. But she does -- and masterfully (or mistressfully) so!

      For those of you who write for a living or for others who simply want to brush up on some of the stickier (and pricklier) points of the English language, I can't encourage you enough to pick up a copy of Ms. Casagrande's book, read it, then give it a well-deserved berth on your bookshelf right next to Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English and Lynn Truss's Eats(,) Shoots & Leaves. I can assure you: the three will make excellent stable-mates!

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    • 2/5
      Well, there was some interesting/useful information in this book, but overall the humor just fell flat and was really annoying. Either the author thought she is much funnier than she is, or she was trying too hard, or maybe she's just not funny. In any event, it didn't work for me.

      So grammar snobs are meanies, but to fight them back non-grammar-snobberians (I don't know what you would call them) should learn grammar so they can be equally obnoxious right back at them? Whatevs.
    • 4/5
      This is the only grammar book I've read that has made me do a spit-take. (I probably would have done more but I commenced a plan of not drinking and reading following the incident.) It's humor is relaxing and the grammar tips are useful and understandable. My only caveat is that the humor is aimed toward an older, less-easily-offended audience.
    • 4/5
      One of the most fun reads in the world for a word lover is a book about grammar. (Really!) This is great fun.
    • 4/5
      I picked this book up after a discussion with a friend over the word "unique." Is unique absolute or are there degrees of uniqueness that require modifiers? "so unique" "not as unique" "very unique" etc....The question on my mind was "am I grammar snob?" After reading this I would say no. It is clear that I have several language pet peeves, but I am not the stickler or "jerkwad" the language elites are. Even if you do follow all the rules it isn't necessary to be constantly correcting everyone unless you are their editor.A light and funny read that still mangages to cover all the grammar rules in an understandable way and also urges you to forget them all. I already have.
    • 5/5
      I totally loved this book. (Thumbs nose at The Elements of Style) It's easy for the layperson to read and understand, and has helped with confidence and writing. Definitely give it a try!
    • 4/5
      Hilarious book written by a Simpsons fan that gives an Orwellian view of grammar. It's as enjoyable as a book on grammar can be.
    • 5/5
      The last chapter is the best in the entire book-this hillarious look at grammar, grammar rules, and why ending a sentence with a prepositition is now something up with which I shall put. Just because of the greater range in topics and the intended audience, I prefered this one to Eats, Shoots and Leaves.