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Lingo
Quinn, Jim | January 18, 1986 issue

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The article focuses on the "On Language" column by William Safire in The New York Times Magazine. According to the author, self-styled language conservatives, sometimes adopt a pose of know-it-all judiciousness. Erudite orthodoxy guards the gates of literacy. Safire is a leading sociolinguistic conservative. On the evidence of Safire's columns, language conservatives are a small minded bunch, so removed from erudition and so mentally lazy that they are strangers to the most primitive of research methods of looking words up in the dictionary.

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SAFIRE, William; SOCIOLINGUISTICS; LITERACY; EDUCATION; LANGUAGE & languages; CONSERVATIVES
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