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Title: Poor Writing From a Linguist
Review: Pearls of wisdom there may be, but they're buried within some of the most painfully poor writing I've ever seen. Here's a passage from page 62:We can quickly and succinctly summarize the two private powers as our thoughts-and-feelings. In thinking and emoting we collect up all of our cognizing--i.e. thinking, information processing, valuing, believing, making decisions, understanding, etc. . . .If you don't like seeing italics spilled carelessly on every page of a book, don't buy this one.His ideas might be all right, but he needs more than an editor--he needs a ghostwriter.
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