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The Greeks Have a Word for it

Author : Barry Unsworth
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393321487
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Greeks Have a Word for it written by Barry Unsworth and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two men traveling from England disembark in Greece from the same boat. How their lives will accidentally and frighteningly intersect is the subject of this novel. Kennedy, an Englishman of no fixed address, is looking for a teaching job in what he hopes will be a Greek paradise. An opportunist who finds himself falling in love - or at least lust - he orchestrates a scam that will have some intended - and some thoroughly unintended - consequences. Mitsos is returning to Greece after many years away. An unresolved family tragedy awakens again, from the ghosts of his parents' deaths and the brutal wartime politics of Greek against Greek.

The Greeks Had a Word For It

Author : Andrew Taylor
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 147352637X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Greeks Had a Word For It written by Andrew Taylor and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you ever search in vain for exactly the right word? Perhaps you want to articulate the vague desire to be far away. Or you can’t quite convey that odd urge to go outside and check to see if anyone is coming. Maybe you’re struggling to express there being just the right amount of something – not too much, but not too little. While the English may not have a word for it, the good news is that the Greeks, the Norwegians, the Dutch or possibly the Inuits probably do. Whether it’s the Norwegian forelsket (that feeling of euphoria at the start of a love affair) or the Indonesian jayus (a joke so poorly told and so unfunny that you can’t help but laugh), this delightful smörgåsbord of wonderful words from around the world will come to the rescue when the English language fails. Part glossary, part amusing musings, but wholly enlightening and entertaining, The Greeks Had a Word For It means you’ll never again be lost for just the right word.

The Greeks Have a Word for it

Author : Thomas Anthem
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book The Greeks Have a Word for it written by Thomas Anthem and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Greeks Have a Word for it

Author : Thomas Anthem
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book The Greeks Have a Word for it written by Thomas Anthem and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Through the Language Glass

Author : Guy Deutscher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780434016907
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Through the Language Glass written by Guy Deutscher and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generalisations about language and culture are at best amusing and meaningless, but is there anything sensible left to be said about the relation between language, culture and thought? *Does language reflect the culture of a society? *I

The Greeks Have a Word for it

Author : Barry Unsworth
Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 : 9780090012503
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book The Greeks Have a Word for it written by Barry Unsworth and published by Arrow. This book was released on 1967 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

It's All Greek

Author : Alexander Tulloch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781851245055
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book It's All Greek written by Alexander Tulloch and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us are aware that words such as geometry, mathematics, phobia and hypochondria derive from ancient Greek, but did you know that marmalade, pirate, sketch and purse can also trace their linguistic origins back to the Athens of 500 BCE? This book offers a word-by-word look at the influence of Greek on everyday words in English, telling the stories behind the etymological developments of each example and tracing their routes into modern English via Latin and European languages. It also explains connections with ancient Greek culture, in particular mythology, politics and warfare, and includes proverbs and quotations from Greek literature. Taken together, these words show how we are deeply indebted to the language spoken in Athens 2,500 years ago for the everyday vocabulary we use when conducting our daily business.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)

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Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen

Author : Mary Norris
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324001283
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Book Synopsis Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen by : Mary Norris

Download or read book Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen written by Mary Norris and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comma Queen returns with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea. In her New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils and punctuation in The New Yorker’s celebrated copy department. In Greek to Me, she delivers another wise and funny paean to the art of self-expression, this time filtered through her greatest passion: all things Greek. Greek to Me is a charming account of Norris’s lifelong love affair with words and her solo adventures in the land of olive trees and ouzo. Along the way, Norris explains how the alphabet originated in Greece, makes the case for Athena as a feminist icon, goes searching for the fabled Baths of Aphrodite, and reveals the surprising ways Greek helped form English. Filled with Norris’s memorable encounters with Greek words, Greek gods, Greek wine—and more than a few Greek men—Greek to Me is the Comma Queen’s fresh take on Greece and the exotic yet strangely familiar language that so deeply influences our own.

The Greeks

Author : Kenneth J. Dover
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292727243
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book The Greeks written by Kenneth J. Dover and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of ancient Greek civilization is provided with discussions of Greek philosophy, art, and literature

The Greeks Had a Word for it

Author : Francesco Camagni
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Greeks Had a Word for it written by Francesco Camagni and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Basic Color Terms

Author : Brent Berlin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520076358
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (763 download)

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Download or read book Basic Color Terms written by Brent Berlin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the psychophysical and neurophysical determinants of cross-linguistic constraints on the shape of color lexicons.

Lovers' Legends

Author : Andrew Calimach
Publisher : Haiduk Press
ISBN 13 : 0971468605
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Lovers' Legends written by Andrew Calimach and published by Haiduk Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lovers' Legends is a collection of homoerotic Greek myths restored from their primary sources. The collection also includes a new rendition of Lucian's Erotes. The volume is illustrated with ancient art.

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

Author : Mary Norris
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393246604
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen written by Mary Norris and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hilarious…This book charmed my socks off." —Patricia O’Conner, New York Times Book Review Mary Norris has spent more than three decades working in The New Yorker’s renowned copy department, helping to maintain its celebrated high standards. In Between You & Me, she brings her vast experience with grammar and usage, her good cheer and irreverence, and her finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical advice. Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Amazon, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Library Journal.

Morality Play

Author : Barry Unsworth
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0525434097
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book Morality Play written by Barry Unsworth and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book In medieval England, a runaway scholar-priest named Nicholas Barber has joined a traveling theater troupe as they make their way toward their liege lord’s castle. In need of money, they decide to perform at a village en route. When their traditional morality plays fail to garner them an audience, they begin to stage the “the play of Thomas Wells”—their own depiction of the real-life drama unfolding within the village around the murder of a young boy. The villagers believe they have already identified the killer, and the troupe believes their play will be a straightforward depiction of justice served. But soon the players soon learn that the details of the crime are elusive, and the lines between performance and reality become blurred as they discover, scene by scene, line by line, what really happened. Thought-provoking and unforgettable, Morality Play is at once a masterful work of historical fiction, a gripping murder mystery, and a literary work of the first order.

The Greeks Had a Word for it

Author : Bernard Cullon Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780771301445
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Greeks Had a Word for it written by Bernard Cullon Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ingenious Language

Author : Andrea Marcolongo
Publisher : Europa Editions
ISBN 13 : 1609455460
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Ingenious Language written by Andrea Marcolongo and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Italian journalist pleads her case for learning ancient Greek in modern times. For word nerds, language loons, and grammar geeks, an impassioned and informative literary leap into the wonders of the Greek language. Here are nine ways Greek can transform your relationship to time and to those around you, nine reflections on the language of Sappho, Plato, and Thucydides, and its relevance to our lives today, nine chapters that will leave readers with a new passion for a very old language, nine epic reasons to love Greek. The Ingenious Language is a love song dedicated to the language of history’s greatest poets, philosophers, adventurers, lovers, adulterers, and generals. Greek, as Marcolongo explains in her buoyant and entertaining prose, is unsurpassed in its beauty and expressivity, but it can also offer us new ways of seeing the world and our place in it. She takes readers on an astonishing journey, at the end of which, while it may still be Greek to you, you’ll have nine reasons to be glad it is. No batteries or prior knowledge of Greek required! Praise for The Ingenious Language “Andrea Marcolongo is today’s Montaigne. She possesses an amazing familiarity with the classics combined with the ease and lightness of those who surf the web.” —André Aciman, New York Times–bestselling author of Find Me “[Marcolongo’s] declaration of love for Ancient Greek does more than celebrate the virtues of its grammar, it shows us modern fools how this language can help us understand ourselves better and live a better life.” —Le Monde (France)