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    How to Swear: An Illustrated Guide
    How to Swear: An Illustrated Guide
    How to Swear: An Illustrated Guide
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    How to Swear: An Illustrated Guide

    By Stephen Wildish

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    “Those who grew up with the taste of soap in their mouths are bound to find this book both charming and hilarious.” —Imboldn

    Even the most profane practitioner of the vulgar tongue must sometimes wonder, “Am I doing it right?” This highly entertaining and crucially informative visual guide to the art of swearing employs a variety of quick-read charts and helpful strategies to take salty skills to the next level. Offering history and etymology along with guidance, quips, insults, answers to lingering questions, and much more, How to Swear celebrates the rude ingenuity of using a naughty word to express surprise, excitement, anger, joy, or disgust, limited only by the imagination. It’s inspiring. It’s educational. It’s dirty. It’s here to change lives or, at the very least, add some f*#&ing color to the conversation.

    “A book of lavatorial language made for the smart lavatory . . . entertaining and informative and, if nothing else, remind[s] you of the mysterious pleasure of using words that are not meant to be said.” —The Guardian

    “A book dedicated to the art of swearing, complete with quick-read charts, diagrams, explications, and strategies to take readers’ salty skills to the next level.” —Medium
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateApr 10, 2018
    ISBN9781452167794
    How to Swear: An Illustrated Guide
    Author

    Stephen Wildish

    Stephen Wildish has a habit of collecting everyday items and then presenting them to you in an easily digestible viewing experience. Take two tablets of Stephen's art twice a day until symptoms subside.

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    • 5/5
      Hilarious. For those profane, it's perfect. For the beginner, a helpful introduction, if a little too advanced. For the humorless, put it down. NSFW, however.
    • 4/5
      Interesting book. This reminds me of the talk among sophomore English majors at college, talking about the etymology, grammar, usage and emphatic nature of curse words and phrases. Each word is examined, charted, diagrammed and the verb tenses explained. Some swear words were both verbs and nouns. The F word, for example, is demonstrated as simple past, simple present, past progressive, present progressive, past perfect, present perfect and future tenses. Fun, humor, and a little knowledge. Great for teenagers, and a good graduation gift for high schoolers who plan to be English majors, or grow up to be the town drunk. A fun book to have on your shelf.
    • 5/5
      "How to Swear" is an example of the perfect kind of joke book. Clearly it isn't meant to be taken terribly seriously, but it maintains the perfect amount of etymology, history, and grammatical practice to be a genuinely useful and informative book. It's the most polite and clinical look into vulgar language I've ever seen, and if you like the concept of a book like this, I can nigh guarantee that you will like this rendition.I'm normally not one to mention the physical printing of the book because it's the content that matters, but I'll make an exception here because this joke book about swearing managed to have the best presentation of any hard-cover book I've ever read. The color palette is tasteful, the binding is perfect, the spine is unyielding, the covers have the perfect hardness, and some pages have ink going to the very edge of a page in a way that's unusual, but satisfying.The chapters, subsections, and graphs are well organized and the overall presentation is lovely. The humor is solid and the analysis is an appealing course in the savory meal that is this book. If the concept or genre is remotely interesting to you, there is no alternative.
    • 3/5
      At first I thought this book was more of a dictionary/lexicon but as I continued through it I found the humor to be quite intriguing. While this book is not something I would normally be drawn to, I wanted to give it a try. It was okay and while I was hoping for more of a "here is when to swear and when not to swear" type of book, it was not too bad. Still I was hoping for more of a tutorial aspect which did not happen.

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