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... usage get to you ? If not , do you think this essay ( or others in this collection ) have made you more sensitive to language usage ? Do you think today's students are concerned much with " language debase- ment " ? Or can they not be ...
... usage get to you ? If not , do you think this essay ( or others in this collection ) have made you more sensitive to language usage ? Do you think today's students are concerned much with " language debase- ment " ? Or can they not be ...
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... usage . If guilt must be assigned , it would have to be placed upon sexist people , both male and female , who use language to manip- ulate gender role behavior and to create negative social attitudes towards males . But often it is ...
... usage . If guilt must be assigned , it would have to be placed upon sexist people , both male and female , who use language to manip- ulate gender role behavior and to create negative social attitudes towards males . But often it is ...
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... usage an error ( let alone madness ) . It does say the usage is " not favoured by grammarians . " But it refers the reader to grammarian Otto Jespersen and his defense of the usage . Jespersen men- tions that the usage can be found in ...
... usage an error ( let alone madness ) . It does say the usage is " not favoured by grammarians . " But it refers the reader to grammarian Otto Jespersen and his defense of the usage . Jespersen men- tions that the usage can be found in ...
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Simplicity WILLIAM ZINSSER | 13 |
Freewriting PETER ELBOW | 19 |
Revising Your Own Manuscript | 28 |
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