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Bill Bryson

“At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance." That is jargon - the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement - and it is one of the great curses of modern English.”


Bill Bryson, The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson
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