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"(called "integrated relative clauses" by the Cambridge Grammar)" does this imply he is not using Cambridge terminology, and that 'pluperfect' only appeared to lift the curse of knowledge?

"...the problem with these errors is not that they betray a absence of logical thinking but that they betray a history of inattention to the printed page."

""What is not the practice of most, or of the best, is not part of our common language.""

"The pseudo-rule was invented by John Drymen based on a silly analogy with Latin (where the equivalent to a preposition is attached to a noun and cannot be separated from it)... cf Hungarian

"For these writers, language is not a vehicle for clarity and grace, but a way to signal their membership in a social clique." Which is another of the systemic functions of language.

Though the claim that good prose leads to good thinking is not always true (brilliant thinkers can be clumsy writers, and slick writers can be glib thinkers), it may be true when it comes to the mastery of coherence." Really?

"A coherent text is one in which the reader always knows which coherence relation holds between one sentence and the next."

"Traditional style guides don't resolve the contradiction, but psycholinguistics can help."

"Expérimenter have recorded reader's eye movements and brainwaves as they work their way through sentences, and have identified both the major lures that lead readers astray and the helpful signposts that guide them in the right direction."

"...a writer turn[s] out such tortuous syntax...when he shovels out phrase after phrase onto the page in the order in which thoughts occur to him."