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The Story of English in 100 Words
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This title is an eye-opening tour of the English language through the ages. Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient word ('loaf') to cutting edge ('twittersphere') and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ('and', 'what') to the more fanciful ('fopdoodle'), Crystal takes us along the winding byways of language via the rude, the obscure and the downright surprising. In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert David Crystal draws on words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources influences and events that have helped to shape our vernacular since the first definitively English word was written down in the fifth century ('roe', in case you are wondering).
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"'Crystal's book is full of distractions and delights' (Daily Express) 'One of [Crystal's] best... it builds gradually into a kind of linguistic tapestry, packed with abstruse information, wonderfully readable' (Spectator) 'If the history of language is a sort of labyrinth, David Crystal is an excellent guide' (The Age, Australia)"
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題名通り100語の英単語についてのお話。著者が前書きで書いているが、通史のような書き方だと「森を見て木を見ず」ということになり、個々の単語だけだと「木を見て森を見ず」ということになってしまう。本書は単語を年代別に並べることにより、木々（単語）を見ながらも森（英語全体の歴史）も見れるような配慮をしたとのこと。
一つの単語について3ページから5ページほどの分量であり、スキマ時間にサッと読むような楽しみ方に向いている。英語も平易。内容も専門的知識を前提としない、だれもが楽しめるような「へー」と思わず声が出るような内容。
ただし著者の配慮にもかかわらずやはり、「木を見て森を見ず」な面は否めず、しっかりと「英語の歴史」を学びたい向きにはお勧め出来ない。気軽に楽しめるエッセイとしては良い。
一つの単語について3ページから5ページほどの分量であり、スキマ時間にサッと読むような楽しみ方に向いている。英語も平易。内容も専門的知識を前提としない、だれもが楽しめるような「へー」と思わず声が出るような内容。
ただし著者の配慮にもかかわらずやはり、「木を見て森を見ず」な面は否めず、しっかりと「英語の歴史」を学びたい向きにはお勧め出来ない。気軽に楽しめるエッセイとしては良い。
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14 人中、13人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
5つ星のうち 5.0
Great fun
2011/12/21
By Victoria E. Davis
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形式:Kindle版|Amazon.co.jpで購入済み
I have been thoroughly enjoying reading this book, one chapter at a time. I've learned so much and will be very sorry when I have finished it. My only criticism is of my purchase. I should have bought a printed copy, rather than the Kindle copy, of this book because I would like to loan it to so many people.
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5つ星のうち 3.0
Disappointed
2012/6/18
By Guido van Rossum
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I bought this after reading a quite positive review in the San Francisco Chronicle's Books section, since I have an ongoing interest in the English language. (It's not my mother tongue, but I feel I've mastered it quite well after living in the US for 17 years.) Sadly, while it was often amusing, the work did not live up to my expectations.
It's perhaps best described as 100 short "columns" about random aspects of etymology and word formation. Each column takes specific word as a starting point, but usually that word is just a conversation starter. Sadly, many of the conversations don't go very deep. The least interesting ones degenerate in long lists of words that "also" follow a specific pattern. The best ones taught me interesting things I didn't know before, but there just weren't enough of these. Some of the worst ones seemed to just be improvisations, discussing some of the author's opinions on non-language-related subjects or telling almost-funny jokes.
The author is also quite keen on the new words brought to us by the age of the Internet. Sadly, he appears to be a rather casual Internet user and doesn't have much to add. Often when he tries to show off his knowledge of Internet jargon he misses the mark by emphasizing terms already obsolete or getting them slightly wrong. I suspect he's using some secondary sources.
All in all, not a total waste, but hardly the best $11 I've ever spent.
It's perhaps best described as 100 short "columns" about random aspects of etymology and word formation. Each column takes specific word as a starting point, but usually that word is just a conversation starter. Sadly, many of the conversations don't go very deep. The least interesting ones degenerate in long lists of words that "also" follow a specific pattern. The best ones taught me interesting things I didn't know before, but there just weren't enough of these. Some of the worst ones seemed to just be improvisations, discussing some of the author's opinions on non-language-related subjects or telling almost-funny jokes.
The author is also quite keen on the new words brought to us by the age of the Internet. Sadly, he appears to be a rather casual Internet user and doesn't have much to add. Often when he tries to show off his knowledge of Internet jargon he misses the mark by emphasizing terms already obsolete or getting them slightly wrong. I suspect he's using some secondary sources.
All in all, not a total waste, but hardly the best $11 I've ever spent.
5つ星のうち 4.0
English in 100 words
2013/4/7
By adrienne molyneux
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形式:Kindle版|Amazon.co.jpで購入済み
Immensely entertaining and amusing, as well as educative. A must for lovers of the language, who are interested in the origin of words an how time can change meaning
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