TAN: Best sellers

[john at research.haifa.ac.il]

This is getting even more off topic (if that's possible), but if you think that
intellectual pursuits aren't stigmatized in England, you haven't met too many
working-class Englishmen. They think any intellectual male must be gay.
John



Quoting Daniel Riaסo <danielrr2 at gmail.com>:

> Yes, the remark was done tongue-in-cheek, but the fact that a book with the
> word "grammar" (correctly spelled) in the cover (and even with the air of a
> Routledge actual grammar) hits the best-selling list is noteworthy per se.
> A very encomiastic review
>
here<http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/26/finnish-grammar-diego-marani-review>
> .
>
> 2011/12/11 Darin Len Arrick <darrick at email.arizona.edu>
>
> > The book is fiction, but has what is normally considered a non-fiction
> > title. It's not actually a grammar of Finnish.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Darin Arrick
> > The University of Arizona
> > Undergraduate Class of 2012
> > Major: Linguistics, Minor: Philosophy
> > Member, UofA Honors College
> > darrick at email.arizona.edu
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Mark Line <mark at polymathix.com> wrote:
> > > Probably.
> > >
> > > But that's England, after all, where intellectual pursuits, even
> > avocational ones, are not stigmatized. The 10th best-selling book is
> > _Quantum Universe_ according to that same list.
> > >
> > > By comparison, this week's bestsellers in USA Today (a.k.a. The Purveyor
> > of American Culture) are mostly youth pulp, as nearly as I can tell. I'm
> > sure they're popular among most adult Americans since they're likely
> > Flesch-tested to 6th grade or so.
> > >
> > > Isaacson's bio of Steve Jobs is #5 -- something you can leave lying
> > around on your coffee table while you're showing off your new iPhone 4S
> > (and its dead battery).
> > >
> > > Still, I guess I might want to hire Diego Marani's publicist.........
> > >
> > > -- Mark
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Dec 11, 2011, at 14:56 , Daniel Riaסo wrote:
> > >
> > >> According to The Guardian's This Week
> > >> Bestsellers<http://www.guardianbookshop.co.uk/BerteShopWeb/home.do>,
> > >> Diego Marani's "New Finnish Grammar" is this week 3rd best selling book
> > in
> > >> England. This is something of a record, isn't it?
> > >
> >
>




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