Aug 4, 2009
Some benign hypocrisy I noticed in David Foster Wallace’s essay “Authority and American Usage”
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Wallace discourages so-called grammatical errors because they cause unnecessary nanoseconds of audience attention (CtL 93), but he regularly uses Latin and words like epigone.
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