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Mind your language

Why do so many academics write so badly?

13 January 2018

9:00 AM

13 January 2018

9:00 AM

Why do so many academics write so badly? Those who make the study of language their life’s work are as bad as any. I saw two books about English in the 18th century reviewed in the TLS and thought I might buy them, until I read quotations from them that the reviewer had chosen, not by way of mockery, but to explain their arguments.

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