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I have learned so much from this book. Most importantly, I've learned that what I thought was a regional dialect of Northeastern Pennsylvania called Heynabonics is actually a nation-wide sub-language called "Slurvian."I think this means that I'm bi-lingual now. This was a cute, though disturbing, read. I laughed until I cried in the beginning section, reading through students' essays and seeing their mutilation of facts, but towards the middle of the book, it just kind of lost me. Yes, there were subject/verb disagreements, unintentional paraprosdokians, misplaced modifiers, and dangling participles but often I just didn't find the examples all that funny. And some of them, despite all disclaimers to the contrary, seemed faked. Or slightly modified to increase the irony and make them funnier, at the very least. After about the 1/3 mark, I think I smiled and maybe chuckled a few times, but the uncontrollable laughter that I was promised, and which I experienced in the beginning, just didn't carry through. Still, this was a quick read, and most of it was amusing even if I didn't spend the entire book in tears of laughter, so it wasn't a complete waste of time.
