
- Spinglish: The Definitive Dictionary of Deliberately Deceptive Language
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Spinglishthe devious dialect of English used by professional spin doctorsis all around us. And the fact is, until youve mastered it, politicians and corporations (not to mention your colleagues and friends) will continue putting things over on you, and generally getting the better of you, every minute of every daywithout your even knowing it.
However, once you perfect the art of terminological inexactitude, be the one manipulating and one-upping everyone else! And heres the beauty part: Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf, authors of the semi-bestseller ,have compiled this handy yet astonishingly comprehensive lexicon and translation guidea , if you willto help you do just that. If you want to succeed in business (or politics, sports, the arts, or life in general) without really lying, this is the book for you! (Your results may vary.)
includes these nifty bits of spurious verbiage and over a thousand more:
aesthetic procedure face-lift
dairy nutrients cow manure
enhanced interrogation techniques torture
For your convenience. For convenience.
hands-on mentoring sexual relations with a junior employee
incomplete success failure
rightsizing firing people
zero-tasking doing nothing
With each and every entry sourced from some of the greatest real-life language benders in the world today, youre virtually guaranteed to have the perfectly chosen tried-and-untrue term right at the tip of your forked tongue. Wish you could nimbly sidestep a question without batting an eye? Not sure how to apologize while also . . . not apologizing? has you covered. Simply consult this convenient, shoot-from-the-lip glossary, and before you know it, youll be telling it like it isnt, it wasnt, and it couldnt ever have been.