Linguistics, Style and Writing in the 21st Century - With Steven Pinker

Linguistics, Style and Writing in the 21st Century - With Steven Pinker

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Linguistics, Style and Writing in the 21st Century - With Steven Pinker

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

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