num_pages: 368
description: 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 youll be the one manipulating and one-upping everyone else! And heres the beauty Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf authors of the New York Times semi-bestseller The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook  have compiled this handy yet astonishingly comprehensive lexicon and translation guidea fictionary  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.) Spinglish includes these nifty bits of spurious verbiage and over a thousand aesthetic procedure  face-liftdairy nutrients  cow manureenhanced interrogation techniques  torture For your convenience.  For our convenience.hands-on mentoring  sexual relations with a junior employeeincomplete success  failurerightsizing  firing peoplezero-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? Spinglish 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.
language: English
title: Spinglish: The Definitive Dictionary of Deliberately Deceptive Language
publisher: Blue Rider Press