Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1267726 in Books
• Published on: 1997-08-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 158 pages

Synopsis
The digital revolution is dramatically altering the English language, and the entire English-speaking world is baffled by the usage issues that have emerged. This text introduces ten principles to deal with current and future usage issues.

Customer Reviews

This is the worst book ever.
This is THE worst book of all time. Half of the definitions are useless (ie. nintendo, game, etc). The other half are mostly all poorly defined. Even if you wanted to find a definition for something it would be impossible because for some reason they group certain terms into lots of different chapters so you never know where something is, like what section would crt be in, Be Elite, Screw the Rules, G Gloabl. Trust me and the other people that have written about this book, don't buy it ever. Buy a good computer dictionary and your set (ie. Dictionary of Internet and Computer Terms ($15) or Cyber Dictionary ($22) or anything except for Wired Style, I encourage anyone who has seen this book to write about how poor this book is and people that don't believe us or are going to buy it, go to your library and rent it first and you'll see.

"Principles of English Usage"? I think not....
I bought this book from Amazon.com on the advice of a good friend who writes technical support manuals for a software company; I figured it was a sure bet. I wish now that I had read the reviews before I clicked "Add this to your shopping cart."

What a *perfect* example of style over substance -- and a style attempting to imitate that of _The Chicago Manual of Style_, at that (nice touch with the orange cover, kids...). This is really nothing more than a glorified glossary of terms with kicky packaging and hard-to-read pages. It's a magazine article about Internet/Web jargon on both steroids *and* acid. I expected much more in terms of content and guidance and I was sorely disappointed. I hope Amazon.com's return policy is as straightforward as it seems.

Excellent, a must-buy for computer illeterate non-nerds
I have used computers for 30 years, understand what they DO, but not fully how they work.
I an now just starting to venture into the Internet - your book, therefore, fills a definite need for computer-terminoloy-illiterate people such as myself who are looking to educate themselves.

I will definitely reccommend the book to other mugs trying to learn