I’ll report to you from time to time on Ben’s The chapter titles, all abbreviations, carry forward theseīen’s book is 241 pages and is published by Broadway Books, a division Make meaning, flavored by the delight that comes any time we play with It has the spirit I love most in booksĪbout writing and language: a wide-ranging curiosity about how writers I haven’t finished the book yet, but I recommend it to you on the basis Pimp - a noun meaning a procurer of prostitutes - turns into a transitive verb, meaning, roughly, “to make pimp-worthy.” And the intransitive verb ride becomes a noun, meaning that in which one rides. Leaving aside the fact that it would have lent a faint aura of hipness to a book otherwise sorely lacking in street cred, Pimp My Ride illustrates a deep and wonderful truth about the parts of speech: they change like the dickens. I have to admit that I carry a torch for number two - which alludes, of course, to the popular MTV series in which a posse of automotive artisans take a run-down jalopy and sleek it up into an awe-inspiring vehicle containing many square yards of plush velvet and an astonishing number of LCD screens. Number one, When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It. In the end, it came down to two potential titles.
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