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Stephen Fry's English Delight

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    Genre: Audiobook
    File size: 96 MB
    File type: MP3

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    Stephen Fry hosts four programmes on the joys of the English language - as heard on BBC Radio 4.

    Current Puns: Why does our language groan with the weight of puns? What exactly is a pun? And who, or what, is the Thief of Bad Gags?

    Metaphor:
    the English language is chock-full of maritime metaphors - cock up, taken aback, chip on your shoulder and show a leg. And, with the help of a Greek removals firm, we also find the origin of the word 'metaphor'.

    Quotation: the uses and misuses of quotations are revealed, and there is also a frank confession from a quotation compiler, which we cannot divulge here.

    Cliche: this title features sick parrots and the cliche crisis that affected the writing of Flaubert, Joyce and Eliot, and helped shape modern language and culture.

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    Series 1
    Metaphor
    Rar'ed MP3| 43 MB
    http://ifile.it/goijlrt/01_Fry_s%20E...t_Metaphor.rar

    Quotations
    Rar'ed MP3|44 MB
    http://ifile.it/mlb094x/02_Fry_s%20E...%202008%29.rar

    Cliche
    Rar'ed MP3| 44 MB
    http://ifile.it/xpko4uy/03_Fry_s%20E...%202008%29.rar

    Series 2

    So Wrong It's Right

    Stephen examines how 'wrong' English can become right English.
    For example, nowadays, more people use the word 'wireless' in a computer context
    than in a radio one. With help from a lexicographer, an educationalist,
    a Times sub-editor and a judge, Stephen examines the way
    in which usage changes language.

    He applauds the council leader who claimed the services provided by
    her local authority should be seen as strawberry-flavoured and castigates
    attempts at banning government jargon like step change and synergie.
    Banning words is fruitless; he favours blue sky thinking, and
    strawberry flavouring.

    Rar'ed MP3|51 MB
    http://ifile.it/1lr480x/01_Fry_s%20E..._s%20Right.rar

    Speaking Proper

    It may be that elocution classes for children are being
    replaced with 'presentation skills' courses for adults, but we still see
    effective communication as the key to success. Stephen announces a field
    day for pedants in his investigation into what nowadays counts
    as 'speaking proper'.

    Rar'ed MP3|50 MB
    http://ifile.it/ea3h7t2/02_Fry_s%20E...g%20Proper.rar

    How 'hallo' came to be one of the world's favourite words.

    Hallo! Stephen says 'goodbye' with a programme about
    'hallo', and how it came to be one of the world's favourite words.

    Rar'ed MP3|50 MB
    http://ifile.it/ktjgsx8/03_Fry_s%20E...t_Hallo%21.rar

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    Default Re: Stephen Fry's English Delight

    are there a pdf file ?


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