Capitalizing on the recent success of Go The F**k to Sleep, authors Chris Baker and Jacob Hansen update Shrunk & White’s classic with The Elements of F*cking Style.
The truth about English is that it can get pretty boring. Dangling modifiers, gerunds, punctuation marks–it’s enough to make you want to drop out of high school. Swearing and sex on the other hand, well, these time-honored pastimes warm the cockles of our hearts. Now, The Elements of F*cking Style drags English grammar out of the ivory tower and into the gutter, injecting a dull subject with a much-needed dose of color.
This book addresses everything from common questions (“What the hell is a pronoun?”) to philosophical conundrums (“Does not using paragraphs or periods make my thesis read like it was written by a mental patient?”).
Other valuable sections include:
- All I’ve got in this world are my sentences and my balls, and I don’t break ’em for nobody
- Pronouns are a real bitch
- A colon is more than an organ that gets cancer
- The positive form beats the shit out of wishy-washy writing
- Symmetry is the tits
- Words your bound to fuck up
Clearly, the authors are unaware of the dictum that profanity is the linguistic crutch of the inarticulate motherfucker.
