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Tag Archives: writing
Linguistic Landscaping in Bookshops (5) – Slovenian
My request for information and images of how bookshops in other cities than the ones I frequent promote prescriptivism, and in particular usage guides, has met with a response! Thank you, Matjaž Zgonc, for your pictures of the linguistics section … Continue reading
The world’s worst written sentence
Consider the following sentence: “Yet the nightmare cast its shroud in the guise of a contagion of a deer-in-the-headlights paralysis.” According to columnist at The Economist, the above sentence would qualify to be nominated as “the world’s worst written … Continue reading
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