You People: Acceptable Ways To Use That Phrase
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Independently published, 2020
Serie: Libro 63 de 136 - Rejected Children's Books (Funny Books For Adults)
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- Título
- You People: Acceptable Ways To Use That Phrase
- Autor
- Toons, Vector
- Editorial
- Independently published
- Año de publicación
- 2020
- Estado
- As New
- Encuadernación
- Encuadernación de tapa blanda
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 13
- 9798690802561
- Serie
- Libro 63 de 136: Rejected Children's Books (Funny Books For Adults)
You People: Acceptable Ways To Use That Phrase... A Context Guide For A Phrase That Has Too Many Contexts
"You people" is a phrase that has context. The context determines whether the phrase is an innocuous collective address or a loaded two-word statement that causes everyone in the room to go very still very quickly. The difference is tone, situation, speaker, audience, and about fifteen other variables that this guide documents with the cheerful comprehensiveness of an illustrated phrase-usage manual. Some uses are fine. Some uses are not fine. The guide covers both categories. It also covers the grey area, which is the most populated category and the one that generates the most specific and memorable reactions.
This adult parody book is a context guide for a phrase that has produced more silence, tension, and rapid conversational topic changes than almost any other two-word combination in English. The phrase is in the title. The acceptable uses are in the book. The unacceptable uses are also in the book because the guide is comprehensive and comprehensiveness requires coverage of the full range. By the end, you will know exactly when to use the phrase and when to use literally any other collection of words.
This Book IS For:
- Adults who have been in a room when this phrase was deployed and watched the specific reaction it produced with perfect accuracy
- Fans of humor that takes a linguistically charged phrase and maps its full contextual range as a comedic exercise
- Anyone who has used this phrase and received a reaction they didn't fully anticipate and want to understand retrospectively
- Gift-givers who want to give something that functions as both comedy and genuinely useful phrase-usage context
This Book Is NOT For:
- People who believe the phrase has no acceptable uses and would prefer the guide not exist in any format
- Anyone who uses the phrase regularly and has never encountered a reaction worth examining
- Readers who need their illustrated guides to language to cover only expressions with fully settled contextual meanings
- Corporate diversity training departments who feel this treatment is insufficiently earnest for their curriculum
Appropriate For:
- White elephant exchanges among groups where the phrase has actually come up in someone's recent experience
- Gag gifts for anyone whose conversational history includes a "you people" moment they've been describing to others since
- Gifts for linguistics enthusiasts who appreciate that two words can do this much contextual work
- Anyone who works in an environment where language and its reception are ongoing topics of conversation
Why Buy This
Two words. Fifteen possible contexts. One guide that covers all of them. The guide is illustrated. The illustration is cheerful. The contextual range the guide covers is not entirely cheerful but the illustration is doing its best. That gap... between how the guide looks and what the guide covers... is the same gap that the phrase itself creates when deployed in certain directions, and the book has understood this about itself and leaned into it completely.
Buy it for someone who has heard the phrase and had the reaction. Buy it for someone who used the phrase and received the reaction and is still processing what happened. Buy it for anyone who finds the specific social weight that two words can carry to be worthy of illustrated documentation and dark humor. You people will know who you are when you read this description. That was intentional. The guide awaits.
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