About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 77. Chapters: All your base are belong to us, Engrish, Pig Latin, Abracadabra, Carmina Burana, Finnegans Wake, Glossolalia, Greeklish, Singlish, Chinglish, Amir Khusrow, Missingsch, Franglais, Denglisch, Faux Cyrillic, Konglish, Boar's Head Carol, Guido Monte, Foreign branding, Hybrid word, Globish, Dunglish, Hiberno-Latin, Tinglish, Swenglish, List of Konglish terms, Dog Latin, Carmen Possum, Mock Spanish, Wasei-eigo, Grammelot, Idioglossia, Franponais, Czenglish, Svorsk, Arablish, John O'Mill, Tenglish, Frespanol, Cryptophasia, Hebglish. Excerpt: Finnegans Wake is a work of comic fiction by Irish author James Joyce, significant for its experimental style and resulting reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language. Written in Paris over a period of seventeen years, and published in 1939, two years before the author's death, Finnegans Wake was Joyce's final work. The entire book is written in a largely idiosyncratic language, consisting of a mixture of standard English lexical items and neologistic multilingual puns and portmanteau words, which many critics believe attempts to recreate the experience of sleep and dreams. Owing to the work's expansive linguistic experiments, stream of consciousness writing style, literary allusions, free dream associations, and its abandonment of the conventions of plot and character construction, Finnegans Wake remains largely unread by the general public. Despite these obstacles, readers and commentators have reached a broad consensus about the book's central cast of characters and, to a lesser degree, its plot. However, a number of key details remain elusive. The book treats, in an unorthodox fashion, the Earwicker family, composed of the father HCE, the mother ALP, and their three children Shem the Penman, Shaun the Post, and Issy. Following an unspecified ru...
