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9781845137151: Sign Language: Travels in Unfortunate English from the Readers of The Daily Telegraph

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A hilarious tour of the state of our mother tongue, from the people who brought you Am I Alone In Thinking . . . ?, Sign Language is a collection of the most inappropriate, confusing, poorly translated and mind-bogglingly bizarre signs from around the world.

Few things amuse and appall Telegraph readers as much as the abuse, misuse, mistranslation and outright mangling of the English language, as can be seen in the newspaper's weekly feature which invites members of the public to send in photographs of menus, health and safety warnings, road signs, adverts, headlines and personals columns – anything in which the language has gone egregiously, hilariously and, usually, unintentionally wrong.

Entitled Sign Language, the published selection of the very best images has become one of the newspaper’s most popular features, attracting over 300,000 online visitors every week and attracting thousands of submissions from around the world. Now, we present the very best of Sign Language – both seen and unseen – and offer a timely warning about the imperiled state of modern English.

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STEVE JAMES is a former Glamorgan and England cricketer, who now writes on cricket and rugby for Telegraph Media. He has written six books, including an autobiography and The Plan, the award-winning story of how two Zimbabwean coaches, Duncan Fletcher and Andy Flower, transformed English cricket. He has ghosted books for Fletcher, England wicketkeeper Matt Prior and Wales rugby captain Sam Warburton.

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ISBN 10:  1781310203 ISBN 13:  9781781310205
Casa editrice: Aurum, 2012
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