Spinglish: The Definitive Dictionary of Deliberately Deceptive Language

Spinglishthe devious dialect of English used by professional spin doctorsis all around us. And the fact is, until you've mastered it, politicians and corporations (not to mention your colleagues and friends) will continue putting things over on you, and generally getting the better of you, every minute of every daywithout your even knowing it.

However, once you perfect the art of terminological inexactitude, you'll be the one manipulating and one-upping everyone else! And here's the beauty part: Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf, authors of the New York Times semi-bestseller The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook, have compiled this handy yet astonishingly comprehensive lexicon and translation guidea fictionary, if you willto help you do just that.

If you want to succeed in business (or politics, sports, the arts, or life in general) without really lying, this is the book for you! (Your results may vary.) Spinglish includes these nifty bits of spurious verbiage and over a thousand more: aesthetic procedure face-lift dairy nutrients cow manure enhanced interrogation techniques torture ';For your convenience.' ';For our convenience.' hands-on mentoring sexual relations with a junior employee incomplete success failure rightsizing firing people zero-tasking doing nothing With each and every entry sourced from some of the greatest real-life language benders in the world today, you're virtually guaranteed to have the perfectly chosen tried-and-untrue term right at the tip of your forked tongue.

Wish you could nimbly sidestep a question without batting an eye?

Not sure how to apologize while also . . . not apologizing? Spinglish has you covered. Simply consult this convenient, shoot-from-the-lip glossary, and before you know it, you'll be telling it like it isn't, it wasn't, and it couldn't ever have been.From the Hardcover edition.