caddyman: (now let me see...)
caddyman ([personal profile] caddyman) wrote2010-01-18 02:47 pm

Free Books

For anyone who may be interested, The Times is giving away a copy of How to Write Better English, by Robert Allen. It is part of the Penguin writers’ guides series.

There are four other titles in the series and it appears that they will be giving them away over the coming week. The titles are:

How to Punctuate, by George Davidson,
How to Write Effective Emails, by R. L. Trask,
Improve Your Spelling, by George Davidson, and
Writing for Business, by Chris Shevlin.

[identity profile] budgie-uk.livejournal.com 2010-01-18 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
How to Write Gooder English, surely?

[identity profile] caddyman.livejournal.com 2010-01-18 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I see you are an aficionado of English as She is Spoke!


[identity profile] budgie-uk.livejournal.com 2010-01-18 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
There was a wonderful parody of The Six Million Dollar Man in CRACKED magazine.

I only remember two gags. One was visual, but the other went:

"We can repair him, We can make him gooder than he was. Faster... stronger... gooder."

"Better, surely?"

"Hey, we're scientists, not English majors."