False Fronts in the Language Wars

[alice wellintown]

Liked it. But why Pinker drug out or stuck in the old two cultures war
stuff at the conclusion, you know, that junk about how scientists are
all like...and non-scientists are all like... you know ...reduced it
to some kind of class warfare after he did such a fine job of
deconstructing the class warfare misreadings of the language wars
weakens his essay. In fact, he spends quite a lot of time describing
the weaknesses in these kinds of attacks and then gets all defensive
at the end and hides behind his little friend irony. He has a nice
touch with irony, but it fails him here in the conclusion.

Meaning and Content  A-
Grammar and Style    A-
Organization and Structure B-
Development  A
Language (voice, sentences, diction, etc.) B+





On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Dave Monroe
<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_good_word/2012/05/steven_pinker_on_the_false_fronts_in_the_language_wars_.html