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Professional Narcissus
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Linguistics, Style and Writing in the 21st Century - With Steven Pinker
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- 1 Intro
- 2 Legalese
- 3 Bamboozlement
- 4 Digital Media
- 5 The dumbest generation theory
- 6 Complaints about the imminent decline of the language
- 7 A commentary from 1917
- 8 Charles Darwin
- 9 The Iconic Elements of Style
- 10 The Elements of Style
- 11 Classic Style
- 12 Postmodern Style
- 13 Minimize Apology
- 14 Minimize Hedging
- 15 Classic Prose
- 16 Professional Narcissus
- 17 Echo Chamber
- 18 About the world
- 19 Nonclassic prose
- 20 Zombie nouns
- 21 Corporate consultants
- 22 Portable generators
- 23 Passive voice
- 24 Active voice
- 25 George Orwell
- 26 Order of words
- 27 Passive sentences
- 28 English syntax
- 29 The curse of knowledge
- 30 The smarties study
- 31 Curse of knowledge
- 32 A better solution
- 33 Correct usage
- 34 The language war
- 35 The rules of language
- 36 Semantic distinctions
- 37 Not every pet peeve
- 38 John Roberts
- 39 How to distinguish legitimate rules from bogus ones
- 40 Keeping correct usage in perspective
