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| | | | | Over on the Stroppy Editor blog, Tom Freeman has written a response to Lionel Shriver's article in Harper's complaining about semantic drift. You should go check Freeman's article out here. I want ... | |
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| | | | | In the not-too-distant past English used the pronoun "him" to refer to individuals of unspecified gender in phrases such as "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion." This understandably annoys som... | |
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| | | | | Contractions youre, well, cant, dont etc. generally make language sound less formal, and avoiding them makes it more formal. Over the years, contractions have become more acceptable higher up the formality spectrum. This is part of a general shift thats been going on for decades: styles of language that were once firmly seen | |
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