The Economist
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Steven Pinker on bad and good writing
I love Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker is what he is. But having him write a book on what denotes good writing is like having Hunter S. Thompson write a guide book on how to join the war on drugs!
The supposed "word-usage expert" doesn't speak very well….!
steve rocks! (and you can always count on economist editors' excellent sense of humor!)
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woo steven is de best
Writing is easy, communicating difficult and intricate ideas is hard.
In defense of the sticklers, and I’m not one, I feel like because we all talk the way we think we should we don’t understand each other. Especially in politics, people throw out terms like democracy when they mean socialism. The right does it too. They have the term anarcho-capitalism. What’s that? It’s like we are trying to reenact the Tower of Babel.
BAD intonation. Woman needs to pronounce and not swallow words. "… (to) talk about"
What a boring and dreary interviewer.
Need no edit !
You can toss a lot of his rules out when it comes to fiction. But I doubt Pinker could write fiction for shit. You have to have an imagination and be able to abandon a rigid scientific mindset for that.
Thanks to Steven Pinker I can finally write good.
I'm pretty sure he didn't name any great contemporary writers in his list.
George Orwell
Writing is neither good, nor bad, its interpretation is extrinsic; something which is quite contrary to what the fascist "active voice" community would have you believe.
Fanks 4 da advice Steve