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ID: 136744
Title: Better Than Great: A Plenitudinous Compendium of Wallopingly Fresh Superlatives
Author: Arthur Plotnik
Narrator: Richard Waterhouse
Format: Unabridged
Length: 06:28:00
Language: English
Release date: 08-01-12
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Non-Fiction, Language Instruction, Language Arts, Reference & Study Guides
Summary:
A veritable TKO of terminology, Better Than Great is the essential guide for describing the extraordinarythe must-have reference for anyone wishing to rise above tired superlatives. Deft praise encourages others to feel as we do, share our enthusiasms. It rewards deserving objects of admiration. It persuades people to take certain actions. It sells things. Sadly, in this age of awesome, our words and phrases of acclaim are exhausted, all but impotent. Even so, we find ourselves defaulting to such habitual choices as good, great, and terrific, or stock synonyms that tumble out of a thesaurussuperb, marvelous, outstanding, and the like. The piling on of intensifiers such as totally only makes matters worse, while negative modifiers (incredible, unreal) render our common parlance nearly tragic. Until now. Not to mince words, wunderkind of word-wonks Arthur Plotnik is proffering a well-knit wellspring of worthy and wondrous words to rescue our worn-down usage. Plotnik is both hella and hecka up to the task of rescuing the English superlative, offering readers the chance never to be at a loss for words of praise and acclamation!