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Stephen Fry's English Delight
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12-17-2009, 10:17 PM #1
Stephen Fry's English Delight
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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Re: Stephen Fry's English Delight
are there a pdf file ?